Age 73. Walter was a brilliant mathematician with a grave mental illness. Satory worked for 30 years at Tenessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was built in secret for the atomic bomb project and became American's largest science and energy lab.
Satory's work on nuclear weapons remains classified but he published pioneering papers on reactor design, medical centrifuges and other subjects. He won a top award at the lab and held three patents.
Satory was treated most of his life for paranoid schizophrenia. He battled social phobias so acute that he turned down a high-paying job rather than submit to an interview. When Satory retired in 1992, he shut himself in a tiny apartment and used algorithms to invest on Wall Street. The savant built a $14 milion portoflio before the stock market crashed last year, records show.
With therapy and new medicine, he began to travel. He moved to Hebron in March 2008 to be near the Cincinnati Norther Kentucky International Airport. He had no immediate family and knew no one in the area.
Friends reported in February 2009 that he had vanished. His death is under investigation.
Satory's work on nuclear weapons remains classified but he published pioneering papers on reactor design, medical centrifuges and other subjects. He won a top award at the lab and held three patents.
Satory was treated most of his life for paranoid schizophrenia. He battled social phobias so acute that he turned down a high-paying job rather than submit to an interview. When Satory retired in 1992, he shut himself in a tiny apartment and used algorithms to invest on Wall Street. The savant built a $14 milion portoflio before the stock market crashed last year, records show.
With therapy and new medicine, he began to travel. He moved to Hebron in March 2008 to be near the Cincinnati Norther Kentucky International Airport. He had no immediate family and knew no one in the area.
Friends reported in February 2009 that he had vanished. His death is under investigation.
Age 73. Walter was a brilliant mathematician with a grave mental illness. Satory worked for 30 years at Tenessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was built in secret for the atomic bomb project and became American's largest science and energy lab.
Satory's work on nuclear weapons remains classified but he published pioneering papers on reactor design, medical centrifuges and other subjects. He won a top award at the lab and held three patents.
Satory was treated most of his life for paranoid schizophrenia. He battled social phobias so acute that he turned down a high-paying job rather than submit to an interview. When Satory retired in 1992, he shut himself in a tiny apartment and used algorithms to invest on Wall Street. The savant built a $14 milion portoflio before the stock market crashed last year, records show.
With therapy and new medicine, he began to travel. He moved to Hebron in March 2008 to be near the Cincinnati Norther Kentucky International Airport. He had no immediate family and knew no one in the area.
Friends reported in February 2009 that he had vanished. His death is under investigation.
Satory's work on nuclear weapons remains classified but he published pioneering papers on reactor design, medical centrifuges and other subjects. He won a top award at the lab and held three patents.
Satory was treated most of his life for paranoid schizophrenia. He battled social phobias so acute that he turned down a high-paying job rather than submit to an interview. When Satory retired in 1992, he shut himself in a tiny apartment and used algorithms to invest on Wall Street. The savant built a $14 milion portoflio before the stock market crashed last year, records show.
With therapy and new medicine, he began to travel. He moved to Hebron in March 2008 to be near the Cincinnati Norther Kentucky International Airport. He had no immediate family and knew no one in the area.
Friends reported in February 2009 that he had vanished. His death is under investigation.
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