#143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of)

Few men of Loomis's prominence and achievement have gone to greater lengths to foil history. He seemed to stand at the edge of important events. Intimately involved and at the same time somehow overlooked. Yet here was a character. Who is at once familiar?

independently wealthy. Iconoclassic. And aloof. Loomis did not conform to the conventional measure, but Of a great scientist.

He was too complex to categorize. Finance. Philanthropist. Society figure. Physicist.

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