User blog comment:Avatar XIII/DCRB 8: Booster Gold vs Cable/@comment-3401602-20160815180542/@comment-3401602-20160815185713

BTTF explains it better but it's practically physicists whose progress in the research of radiation greatly effected them - Curie's legacy and ultimate death and Manhattan's death and ultimate rebirth. I think both also had loved ones supposedly impacted similarly by the radiation.