My Wife Worked at France’s Top Secret Atomic Lab – Then Brought Isotope Science to Communist Poland
In 1957 my wife, Helena Birecka, worked at the prestigious Atomic Energy Institute in Saclay, France (created by de Gaulle), forming a deep friendship with the head of the biological department. When she returned, she built Poland’s first Central Isotope Lab with controlled-environment glasshouses and later won a state prize for peaceful use of atomic energy in agriculture.Meanwhile, I organized advanced field research labs, managed potato research stations with isotopic facilities, earned a FAO fellowship to study at Wageningen and the legendary Rothamsted Experimental Station in England…
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