n high school, had to drop out in order to take care of her brothers and her father. While touring the facility where Dr. Hoenikker did the bulk of his research, John asked a former coworker of Hoenikker if she had known him, to which she replied: "I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things. ...Dr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him. ...the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth." (Cat's Cradle, p54)
             Through his investigations, John learns that before dying, Dr. Hoenikker had made one final discovery. He found a way to make ice remain frozen at room temperature. The secret was that by changing the mol
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