The sweep of family history across the generations
Stan strung transmission wires in the South Pacific during World War II.
Three brothers of the Kleemann family from the Weinberg district of 19th century Danzig operated a coffee and tea import business. Hugo Lewi married into the family and was a dealer in military effects.
Home from the war, Stan Ruby was a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Helga Ringel was a smart, pretty war refugee from Berlin
How and why did Stan Ruby's important post-graduate research go wrong, and what impact did it have on his career in physics?