I love to hear about people like this. I have been wanting to set up a research lab for years. My only fear is that my abilities might be faded by the time I have the ability to spend all my time in the lab. No matter what though, we truly live in a time of near magical material science.
Never fear, some of the greatest inventions came to inventors later in life. This whole “you need to accomplish early in life” is a trick to demotivate you.
the origin of the tech behind Intel's cross point memory
And mister Nickel Metal Hydride. I knew I recognized that name but couldn’t place it.