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Researchers don't keep all their "life's work" in isolated file cabinets.
Heh. I have to question the intelligence of any research department — corporate, scholarly or governmental — that would keep all of its research in a place where it could be completely wiped out by one fire. I really don't think that's likely. There are secure database backup facilities all over the U.S. that charge substantial amounts to keep that from happening. But then gain, this guy wasn't working on nuclear weapons. He was working on tree DNA. I'm betting there was a backup disk somewhere.