I worked in Brian Wilcox's section, at JPL. He reviewed a couple of my concepts and of course dismissed them as silly. My impression of him as a classic polyma

I worked in Brian Wilcox's section, at JPL. He reviewed a couple of my concepts and of course dismissed them as silly. My impression of him as a classic polymath is reinforced by the fact that he wrote seminal texts on both volcano defusing and rover wheel diameter optimization, both of which have come up in recent discussions. He has the signature "first principles" approach of using mostly physics with some clever choices of approach to make it work out nicely. Quality JPLer.