Left school at 11; personally apprenticed to a metallurgical chemist; a voracious autodidact; quantitative in a qualitative field, who kept one foot in the tren

Left school at 11; personally apprenticed to a metallurgical chemist; a voracious autodidact; quantitative in a qualitative field, who kept one foot in the trenches, eschewing the managerial mindset - all told, a veritable steampunk hardware hacker.