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I have a story from my high school physics teacher as well. Before he was a teacher, he worked at Kodak on digital imaging. His group had made a discovery, and
by jetrink 3y ago
I have a story from my high school physics teacher as well. Before he was a teacher, he worked at Kodak on digital imaging. His group had made a discovery, and after clearing it with management, they submitted a paper to a scientific journal. It was accepted, but just before the issue went to print, government censors decided that the idea had military applications and the paper was classified.* The issue had already been typeset and there was no time to make a new layout, so the journal published the issue with nine 'intentionally left blank' pages in the middle without explanation. He had the issue on his bookshelf and would show it off every year as the most significant achievement in his career. It was still classified at the time, so he couldn't say anything more about it.
* Kodak worked on spy satellites for the DoD, among other things, so the work could have been funded by the military as well.