Your story suggests value in another article focussing on the personalities of Tinsley and Schaeffer. Both obsessives, both pre-eminent in their domain, but in

Your story suggests value in another article focussing on the personalities of Tinsley and Schaeffer. Both obsessives, both pre-eminent in their domain, but in quite different ways - and with different consequences on the rest of their lives. Tinsley's variety of obsession seems much healthier than Schaeffer's.