" Early in the book it is learned that Felix Hoenikker ( a fictional co-inventor of the atom bomb ) was playing cat's cradle when the bomb was dropped, and the game is later referenced by his son, Newton Hoenikker.

The Nobel Prize-winning chemist Irving Langmuir, who worked with Vonnegut's older brother Bernard at GE, became the model for Dr. Felix Hoenikker.

While researching this topic, John becomes involved with the children of Felix Hoenikker, a Nobel laureate physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb.

In Ilium John meets, among others, Dr. Asa Breed, who was the supervisor " on paper " of Felix Hoenikker.

* Felix Hoenikker is the " Father of the Atom Bomb.

* Newton " Newt " Hoenikker: The midget son of famed scientist Felix Hoenikker, and a painter.

* Emily Hoenikker is Felix Hoenikker's beautiful wife, who died giving birth to Newt Hoenniker.

* Franklin " Frank " Hoenikker is Felix Hoenikker's son, and Major General of San Lorenzo.

* Angela Hoenikker Conners is Felix Hoenikker's daughter and a clarinetist.

In Vonnegut's Galápagos, Mary Hepburn was a High School teacher in Ilium, and in Cat's Cradle, it is the former home of Dr. Felix Hoenikker — one of the fathers of the atomic bomb — thus, it is the town that John visits to interview Dr. Asa Breed, Hoenikker's former supervisor.

Last week it opened at the J. B. Speed Museum in Louisville, at the very moment that a second Schiele exhibit was being made ready at the Felix Landau gallery in Los Angeles.

Perhaps if Felix had first come upon us when this boy was not cavorting so gaily up and down the hall outside the murdered woman's apartment, we might have had less trouble convincing Felix of our seriousness.

By the time Felix turned up it was early afternoon, which, one would think, would be late enough so that by then, except for small children and a few hardy souls who had not yet sobered up, it could have been expected that people would no longer be having any sort of active interest in the previous night's noisemakers and paper hats.

Felix was the exception.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.

For Felix it was a bit of a stretch to make even that measurement.

This was a broth of a boy, our Felix, and nothing was more obvious than the joy he took in demonstrating how agile he was and how full of juice and spirit.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

Gen. Felix Huston, challenging each other for the command of the Texas Army ; Johnston refused to fire on Huston and lost the position after he was wounded in the pelvis.

Eastern Tennessee was held for the Confederacy by two unimpressive brigadier generals appointed by Jefferson Davis, Felix Zollicoffer, a brave but untrained and inexperienced officer, and soon to be Maj. Gen. George B. Crittenden, a former U. S. Army officer with apparent alcohol problems.

He was an excellent pianist, and the author of numerous compositions somewhat reminiscent of Felix Mendelssohn.

Antipope Felix II was installed as Pope in 355 after the Emperor Constantius II banished the reigning Pope, Liberius, for refusing to subscribe the sentence of condemnation against Saint Athanasius.

The Emperor planned to have Felix and Liberius rule jointly, but when Liberius returned Felix was forced to retire to Porto, near Rome, where, after making an unsuccessful attempt to establish himself again in Rome, he died on 22 November 365.

This Felix was later confused with a Roman martyr named Felix, with the result that he was included in lists of the Popes as Felix II and that the succeeding Popes of the same name ( Pope Felix III and Pope Felix IV ) were given wrong numerals, as was Antipope Felix V.

`` In the present '', Felix proclaimed.

The first village was created in 1640 being proclaimed as an autonomous locality on December 5, 1645, by a pioneer named Jacques Felix.

The City of Boston has proclaimed that Friday, October 28th 2011 is " Felix D. Arroyo Day ".

And later ten films by the Pat Sullivan Studio from 1918 – 1919, which would later use the ' Charlie / Charley ' gestures to create Felix the Cat, the character made one later appearance in one of Felix's 1923 cartoons " Felix in Hollywood ".

Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix, married to his daughter Claudia Antonia, was only descended from Octavia and Antony on one side — not close enough to the Imperial family to prevent doubts ( that did not stop others from making him the object of a coup attempt against Nero a few years later ).

Felix Hausdorff ( November 8, 1868 – January 26, 1942 ) was a German mathematician who is considered to be one of the founders of modern topology and who contributed significantly to set theory, descriptive set theory, measure theory, function theory, and functional analysis.

A recent biography of Mendelssohn's grandson, Felix, describes their friendship as one of the most " illuminating metaphors the clarion call of the Enlightenment for religious tolerance ".

One ( Felix ) is known to have lived to 45 and one retired gladiator lived to 90.

Hausdorff spaces are named for Felix Hausdorff, one of the founders of topology.

Felix Klein argued in his Erlangen program that one can consider various " geometries " by specifying an appropriate transformation group that leaves certain geometric properties invariant.

On the death of Liberius on 24 September 366, one faction supported Ursinus ( or Ursicinus ), who had served as deacon to Liberius, while another faction, previously loyal to the Antipope Felix II, supported Damasus.

At 21, on the train between his home village and Vienna, Steiner met a herb gatherer, Felix Kogutzki, who spoke about the spiritual world " as one who had his own experience therein ...".

He was one of the few German composers under the Nazi regime who responded to the official call to write new incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream after the music of Felix Mendelssohn had been banned – others refused to cooperate in this.

It is said that Felix appeared as an apparition to one of his descendants, his great-granddaughter Trasilla ( an aunt of Pope Gregory I ), and asked her to enter Heaven through death, and on the eve of Christmas Trasilla died, seeing Jesus Christ beckoning.

When regnal numbering of the Popes began to be used, Antipope Felix II was counted as one of the Popes of that name.

Just over 58 % of the electorate voted in the independence referendum, which had to be postponed one day due to disruptions caused by Hurricane Felix in 1995.

Felix Frankfurter and Robert H. Jackson led one faction, which insisted upon judicial self-restraint and insisted courts should defer to the policymaking prerogatives of the White House and Congress.

Given his minority status, the new Augustus ruled under the regency of his mother Galla Placidia, one of whose first acts was to install Felix as the Magister utriusque militiae in the west.

Some of the first attempts of heavier-than-air flying machines were monoplanes ; the Monoplane built in 1874 by Felix du Temple de la Croix is one example.

Just one character, Greenberg ( played by Felix Bressart ), an actor in the theatrical company, is made obviously Jewish.

In 1926 a Venezuelan mining inspector found one of the richest iron ore deposits near the Orinoco delta, south of the town of San Felix on a mountain name El Florero.

The church is said to have possibly replaced an earlier Norman church and an even older one built by St Felix, Bishop of East Anglia, about 630.

The diocese was an old one, and traditions of the early Christian church lingered ; Felix of Urgel's tendencies towards the heretical position of adoptionism was attacked by Alcuin of York in Contra Felicem ( Runciman, 1947 ).