This obituary of George B. Kistiakowsky-"Kisty" as we who were privileged to know himappeared in the Boston Globe of December 8. Professor Kistiakowsky was an immigrant to this blessed land an he was possessed of that special patriotic fervor common to those who find refuge and safe harbor at our shores. Born in Kiev in the Ukraine. he was a youngthen a sergeantrecruit in the Army that battled Lenins Bolsheviks after the 1917 revolution. Attaining his doctorate in Berlin. he came to America and quickly made a place for himself in that international exile elite which forged new pathways in science and led the world into the nuclear age.
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