For most of his career, he was a casting agent's vision of a bench scientist: shy, eccentric, nerdy, soft-spoken. But sometime this spring, with the FBI closing in on him, Bruce E. Ivins's life took a dark turn that frightened his closest friends. -
By Joby Warrick, Marilyn W. Thompson and Nelson Hernandez
A Scientist's Quiet Life Took a Darker Turn
For most of his career, he was a casting agent's vision of a bench scientist: shy, eccentric, nerdy, soft-spoken. But sometime this spring, with the FBI closing in on him, Bruce E. Ivins's life took a dark turn that frightened his closest friends.-
By Joby Warrick, Marilyn W. Thompson and Nelson Hernandez