Diogenes Angelakos

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Diogenes James Angelakos (1920 - June 7, 1997) was the director for 20 years of the Electronics Research Laboratory and a professor emeritus of electronic engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He is credited with building up the research group into one the university's biggest research labs.^[1]

However, he is best known for an entirely different reason. On July 2, 1982, he was the victim of a bomb left by Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber", at a mathematics and computer science faculty lounge in Cory Hall. He was injured in the face and right hand, but recovered nearly completely.^[1]

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1. ^ ^{a b} Diogenes Angelakos, 77, Scholar Who Was Target of Unabomber (obituary). New York Times (June 11, 1997). Retrieved on 2008-01-10.