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For Immediate Release

Public Affairs Office/University of Texas, Austin

The entire University of Texas family is saddened by the loss of Professor Edwin H. Grossman. Dr Grossman apparently leapt to his death from the top of the University of Texas tower. In recent months Dr Grossman had been under great strain. Students reported that his usual lectures on nanotechnology had taken on a paranoid character, with Dr Grossman falsely claiming that nanotechnology was already being deployed in a bid by unnamed forces to effectively reprogram the human race.

Dr Grossman, one of the world’s leading researchers on microscopic machines, wrote a book in 2011 warning that self-replicating nano devices could run out of control with dire consequences. The book was published without the support of the University or his department.

In 2012 Dr Grossman claimed to have been consulted by the CIA on the so-called gray goo scenario, the fanciful notion that self-reproducing nano machines could run amok and obliterate all carbon-based life-forms in a matter of days.

A student, Jing Ju Chow, who claimed to have seen two men throw Dr Grossman from the twenty-eighth floor observation deck of the UT Tower, recanted when questioned by campus police and was later fatally injured in a car-on-pedestrian accident off campus.

The University mourns both of these tragic deaths.