“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”

“There Were Periods When I Felt He Ruined My Life”

Amanda Gefter has lived with Peter Putnam in her head for 12 years now. “I feel like I know him better than the actual people I know,” she said to me with a peal of laughter, as if confessing a secret that she had kept inside her for so long. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Until Gefter’s article, “Finding Peter Putnam,” was published in Nautilus on June 17, next to nobody had heard of the physicist who worked…