"" ..... Former Lab director and Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan once referred to Brobeck as the "master of the confluence of engineering and physics," who "transformed homemade toys into superb tools of the intellect," and "helped open to human understanding the worlds of the atom and of subatomic particles."
" ... Brobeck's first large-scale assignment was to design the 60-inch cyclotron in 1939 -- then the largest and most powerful accelerator in the world .. ""
And we also should remember that in 1939 - WW II declared !!
Was feeling kind of going through a capsule of Epic ..
your dad is undoubtedly a Great Legend !!
And you are in the process of making yourself one - we are sure !!