The Cryotron Files

The “fascinating [and] informative” biography of a pioneering American computer scientist and his mysterious death during the Cold War ( The Scotsman , UK). MIT professor Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died of mysterious causes in 1959. His latest invention, the Cryotron, was an early form of microchip that would have greatly advance ballistic missile technology. Shortly before Dudley’s death, he was visited by a group of Soviet computer