High-school dropout Marvin Hewitt taught complex physics and philosophy at universities across mid-century America using stolen identities and forged credentials.

This episode traces his self-taught brilliance, his string of assumed names, the culture of institutional silence that enabled him, and his eventual legitimate career.

• His failed first fraud as an aerodynamic engineer in 1945
• Teaching for years under real physicist Julius Ashkin's name
• Shifting from physics to philosophy under the name Clifford Berry
• Colleges quietly dismissing him to avoid public scandal
• His later honest career as an engineer under his own name