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'''Robert Stadler, Ph. D.''', in [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', was a brilliant [[physics|physicist]], and was [[professor]] and chairman of the Department of Physics at the [[Patrick Henry]] University. Then he effectively sold his soul for government grants, by endorsing, and then accepting the directorship of, the [[State Science Institute]]. Sadly for him, he would discover that he was a mere figurehead, and that the State Science Institute was actually in the hands of a fellow scientist who had planned for a long time to pervert the use of [[science]] in the search for political power. He ended up striving for physical control of a [[weapon of mass destruction]] and dying in agony.

'''Robert Stadler, Ph. D.''' (1899-1958), in [[Ayn Rand]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', was a brilliant [[physics|physicist]], and was [[professor]] and chairman of the Department of Physics at the [[Patrick Henry]] University. Then he effectively sold his soul for government grants, by endorsing, and then accepting the directorship of, the [[State Science Institute]]. Sadly for him, he would discover that he was a mere figurehead, and that the State Science Institute was actually in the hands of a fellow scientist who had planned for a long time to pervert the use of [[science]] in the search for political power. He ended up striving for physical control of a [[weapon of mass destruction]] and dying in agony.

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