ABSTRACT
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, the renowned geochemist, was in Norway prior to the German take-over, and carried a container of potassium cyanide in the event of his arrest. Paul Rosbaud (who had been active with the underground during the war, and who spent many years before his death with Pergamon Press) knew Goldschmidt very well, and told me that a Norwegian colleague once asked Goldschmidt for some of the poison in case he too were 'taken'. Goldschmidt answered, 'Herr Professor So-and-so, poison is for chemists. You are a professor of mechanical engineering, and should use the rope.'
