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Dr. Clifford Dalton was a
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scientist and inventor of the fast breeder reactor. During the Second World War he married scientist and author Catherine Graves (daughter of the writer
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). They subsequently emigrated to Australia, where he worked as Engineer-In-Chief of the
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He died in 1961. Although the cause of death is generally acknowledged as cancer, Catherine Dalton has alleged that he was murdered; in her book 'Without Hardware', she claims that the
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were intended to prevent Bogle from investigating her husband's death.