Physical limitations make Mössbauer-based gamma beam technology impractical.

Papers make clear that the Brookhaven experiment with Rustad was also the subject of Stan's Ph.D. thesis

Stan's Argonne job application contains a brief explanation of his Columbia graduate work

Stan's technical training ended abruptly when ASTP cadets were called into active duty

671 W. 162nd Street is the second building from the corner of Riverside Drive.

Stan served in the Army Specialist Training Program in the fall and winter of 1943-44

Wu's actions in the Rustad-Ruby affair are covered in her Chinese biography

Stanley Ruby is among the former students and colleagues of C. S. Wu who are quoted

I’m reading a helpful book, Story Genius, by Lisa Cron, about narrative technique that I plan to write more about in the master blog. Here I will focus on Cron’s concept of any story’s “third rail,” the underlying problem that ties together the external plot points with the main characters’ beliefs and motivations, and thus electrifies the story. 

in The Physics Experiment That Went Wrong story, I believe the third rail is the conflicting belief systems of Wu and Ruby over the appropriate balance between doing science with one’s family life.

Before I turn the page for good on the doppelganger Stanley Ruby, I can't resist this tidbit about his father. I wanted to know where the family had come from and how it had come by the Ruby surname.

But let's start with that page of Ruby listings in the 1949 Manhattan phonebook that I posted a few days ago. There were two Stanley Rubys listed on adjacent lines, but a few lines above that we find two other interesting listings.

One is Samuel Ruby at 9 W. 18th St. and above that is S. Ruby Luggage Company also at 9 W. 18th St.