Doctor Jenet Klyburn assumed oversight of the Metropolis branch of S.T.A.R. Laboratories following the removal of its former chief administrator, Doctor Albert Michaels. Michaels secretly was also employed with the sinister S.K.U.L.L. which terrorized Metropolis, and which had assisted him in devising equipment regulating the defrocked scientist's brainwaves. While with S.T.A.R., Michaels repeatedly opposed Klyburn when she assisted Superman in various cases, and as the Atomic Skull he sought revenge against both Jenet and the hero himself. Despite this, Doctor Kylburn was undaunted in making herself always available to aid the superhuman community, including when she developed a formula which extinguished the clones of Solomon Grundy spawned by the Parasite.
Doctor Terri Kurtzberger assumed oversight of N.A.S.A. in Cape Canavaral, following in the example of her scientific father turned supervillain, Terry Curtis (Kurtzberger). When Terry became susceptible to atomic poisoning due to his experiments, which proved fatal for his wife and Terri's mother, he assumed the alter ego of Cyclotron in order to secure treatments for his infant daughter from the Ultra-Humanite. Ultra, whom the elder Curtis previously had been associated with, blackmailed Terry into joining him in criminal endeavors. Eventually, Cyclotron turned against Ultra and helped save the All-Star Squadron and specifically Superman from Ultra's schemes. Although he returned later to save Terri's life from Ultra, now in an ape body, Cyclotron ultimately perished. As for Doctor Kurtzberger, she learned that her father's atomic-irradiated genes were passed along to her son, Albert Rothstein... who became the superhero Nuklon.
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