"Juanita held two degrees in nuclear physics."
"You mean this atom bomb stuff?"
"That was part of it."
"Gilmore's a big name in that field, I understand," Kirk said.
"Maybe the biggest."
"Kind of young to rate that high, wouldn't you say? He couldn't have been much past forty."
Cordell shrugged. "He was thirty-eight—and a genius. Genius has nothing to do with age, I hear."
"Not married, I understand."
"That's right." A slow frown was forming on Cordell's face.
"How old was your wife?" Kirk asked.