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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
Actually, he was a nuclear engineer not a nuclear physicist. I'm betting there's a difference, although I admit I'm not sure exactly what that difference is 
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And a 'glow-in-dark bubblehead' (aka submariner) who somehow managed to survive Adm. Rickover's nerve-wracking one-on-one interview technique!
The title of his first book,
Why Not The Best? came from Rickover's interview when he applied for the submarine program.
A nuclear engineer gets 'down and dirty' with the nuts and bolts of a system; a nuclear physicist works on all kind of 'what if' scenarios.
