Unrelated to this but i guess the comment reply time expired to your question before I could answer about the dead physicist. No not without doxing myself. I

Unrelated to this but i guess the comment reply time expired to your question before I could answer about the dead physicist. No not without doxing myself. I did some asking for you(and me i suppose) though and most likely what he was working on was something to do with decoherence of entangled qbits for quantum computing.