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Dr. and Mrs. William Penney.Wife of Britain's leading atom scientist Bill Penney thinks of fame as the thing that influences the butcher.Wife of Dr. William George Penney, Britain's atomic weapon chief, went into smoke this week.Most likely she will stay there until her husband comes home to answer the telephone.Until a week or two before the Monte Bello explosion it was possible to talk to the Penneys by telephoning Gipsy Hill 3865. October 17, 1952. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press Ltd.).