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Martin Kamen (1913-2002) was a Canadian-American physicist.

Kamen was seemingly destined for a landmark career in physics when he arrived at the Radiological Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley in 1936.

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He was part of the group that discovered the synthesis of the carbon-14 isotope in 1940 and soon became a valuable member of the wartime Rad Lab team.

During the war he also spent time at the Oak Ridge project site. It was here that his promising career began to unravel.

After noticing that some of the radioactive sodium he was preparing for an experiment seemed to be contaminated, Kamen deduced that the material must have been irradiated by a nuclear reactor located elsewhere in the facility. Given that he did not have the clearance to know about such a reactor, Kamen soon became the subject of surveillance by counter-intelligence officials after he reported his concerns to his superiors.

Soon after, Kamen returned to Berkeley.

Trouble still seemed