Karl Becker

Karl Becker was a medical physicist who briefly worked for Nevrin's Section G-1, stationed at the Girvan Offshore Science Facility (GOSF). Born in Glasgow in 1974, he is the head of Entropics Research at the Thames Republic's Department for Exophysics (DfE), and was one of the earliest researchers at the Department. He pioneered methods to treat the effects of entropic radiation (E-rad) on organic life forms.

History

Karl graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Medical Physics from the University of Glasgow; later the same year, he was recruited by Nevrin, and began working in the GOSF's Arctarus Sector, analysing the effects of entropic radiation on organic life forms, and developing a paper on how to treat victims of E-rad exposure. Less than a year later, his paper was almost complete; however, the Island Containment Breach occurred, throwing his life into chaos. He was one of the small number of employees that managed to escape with their lives intact, due to being located in Exertus, not Arctarus, at the time of the breach.

Karl's own exposure to entropic radiation in the breach left him physically scarred. Too traumatised to want to relive the breach or bring public attention towards the accident, he moved to Bracknell, London in order to take up a light job at the nuclear physics department of a local hospital, where he continued to work for eight years. He later moved several times across the city, and became a professor teaching theoretical physics at the Imperial College London.