Who is Fred Bockman from Welcome to the Monkey House and what is their importance?

Fred is a physicist at Wyandotte College. He listens to the sounds of outer space through a huge radio transmitter. He discovered the signal from space that creates Euhporia when rebroadcast. He plays this on Lew's radio show and makes the whole town euphoric. Fred is an upstanding man, with a wife, Marion. Fred is driven by a love of science. Fred first goes along with Lew's plan out of scientific curiosity. Later on, after the two day experiment, he helps the narrator destroy the Euphio.