I’m grappling with the realization that it’s already been almost fifteen years since I read “Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II,” by Jennet Conant. Alfred Loomis had an astonishing and perhaps unprecedented combination of competencies. Loomis was scientifically gifted and eccentric, yet he excelled in business and he made himself independently wealthy, so he could do whatever he wanted to do. Later, his interests and accomplishments intersected with what had to be done in order for the Allies to win WWII.