Isaac Lakin

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also known as Lakin, Isaac

Opponent; department head at UCSD

Hungarian-born physicist who built UCSD's NRL; politically cautious; first dismisses the signal as nonsense, then tries to co-opt it as publishable 'spontaneous resonance' to serve NSF renewal.

In Timescape (Gregory Benford, 1980)