Gerald Sebring

Gerald Sebring (presumed dead, 1942) was an American physicist from Berkeley, California. He worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago. He had intended to return to Berkeley in the summer of 1942 to conduct research and marry a colleague's secretary; his plans were preempted when the arrival of the Race's Conquest Fleet made travel all but impossible. Sebring instead volunteered to travel to Washington, D.C. to meet with government officials and remind them that defending Chicago long enough for the phycisists to continue their research was all-important. Unfortunately, no one in Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, where the War Department had relocated after the destruction of Washington by one of the Race's atomic bombs, had seen or heard from him. It was assumed the train on which he'd been travelling had been destroyed and he'd been killed.