great timeline on a transformative individual and the technology he's chosen to transform right now looks like he has overcome great lack of good fortune from

great timeline on a transformative individual and the technology he's chosen to transform right now looks like he has overcome great lack of good fortune from a young age realistically, also, the Intel scholarship in 2000 is such a rare form of (well-deserved) good fortune that very few other scientists will ever have the ability to leverage something like that sadly, as recently as 2009 - 2010 it also looks like a very temporary slight lack of institutional political good fortune could very well have derailed the whole thing if nobody had "sung his praises" and/or nobody had listened at the time, there would have been no breakthrough nearly as advanced by now the best of science can easily become worthless in an institutional environment without a high level of political good fortune transformative science is more common than you think, what's really rare as a unicorn is a breakthrough-capable scientist with an unbroken chain of political and/or financial good fortune especially in labs that are unique, expensive, hazardous, controversial, etc.