George Chapline Jr.

George Chapline got his PhD in physics from Cal Tech under Frautschi. He worked under Edward Teller for many years at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. George designed and conducted an underground nuclear explosion to produce high energy photon lasing. He is currently working with Robert Laughlin a Nobel Prize physicist on the "dark energy star" alternative to the black hole. George met Jack Sarfatti at UCSD in La Jolla in the mid 1960's in the group that Greg Benford wrote about in the novel "Timescape". Jack used to ride with George in his black Shelby Cobra convertible. George arranged for Jack to get his teaching job at San Diego State University where Jack met Fred Alan Wolf. George thinks Jack should get the credit for the prediction of the supersolid because Jack's paper appeared in Physics Letters A months before Tony Leggett's.