How does that make a difference? We&#x27;re supposed to discount his wife&#x27;s sacrifice because of potential social pressures?<p>If you really wanted to be a cold hearted bastard about it you could have done a cost benefit analysis on the potential earnings of a theoretical physicist vs a secretary in the early 1950&#x27;s before you discounted it from being a financial decision, but then you couldn&#x27;t have made an opportunistic political statement due to a man&#x27;s death.