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A federal judge on Aug. 16 rejected a plea deal for a U.S. Navy nuclear engineer and his wife who are accused of ...

Viktor Erwin Hampel, former LLNL physicist, died Dec. 26. He was 90. Hampel was born in Vilnius, Lithuania to Richard and Edith Hampel. In 1950, at the age of 20, he received a one-year full scholarship to study at the University of Mississippi. In America he found hope and peace and in 1952 immigrated as a refugee. His first job was at Sciaky Bros. in Chicago as a research technician in their development laboratory. In Oak Park, Chicago he met Annelies, who also had recently immigrated from ...