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WASHINGTON (AP) - The story of how U.S. scientists mis- sed the boat on an important atomic invention because they failed to read a letter they thought. came from 8 “Crazy Greek” was told Thursday to a congressional committee.

The invention now stands to save the United States at least $70,000,000 in the construction of a powerful atom - smashing ma- chine.

U.S. scientists did perfect the invention, but they found out la- ter the same thing was developed a year before by a Greek elec- trical engineer named Nicholas Christofilos.

Christofilos wrote a letter to some American scientists at the time but they “tossed it into the files” without reading it because they thought it was just “another letter from» that crazy-' Greek.”

The story was related to the Senate-House of Representatives atomic subcommittee on research and development by Dr. George K. Green of the Atomic Energy Commission. .

In 1950, Christofilos wrote the AEC-supported University of Cali- fornia radiation laboratory on the subject of atom-smashers.

Green said the letter “was a mess,” and the UCRL scientists wrote him a reply “analyzing all his - errors and misconceptions.” DITCH SECOND LETTER

A year later. said Green, an- other/letter came. The scientists thought it was “a crank letter" and “they didn't even read it.”

In the summer of 1952, a team of 'scientists came up with an in- vention known as the “strong fo- cusing principle,” immediately recognized as something that would make possible a powerful atom-smasher with a big saving

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Shortly after that, Christofllos turned up and one day while hav- ing lunch with Dr. Green men- tioned that he had come up with the same invention a year before. He also told Green about having written to the California scien- tists.

Green immediately telephoned the scientists.

“They got his letter out of the files,” Green grinned, “and their faces were red.”

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