What is the nature of the space he's working in? Something like physics, you can have a gap of months or years between a new theoretical breakthrough or the co

What is the nature of the space he's working in? Something like physics, you can have a gap of months or years between a new theoretical breakthrough or the completion of a new machine giving you new raw data to churn through. ... but chemistry is something (no offense to chemists) you can do to the dirt outside your house, and every novel molecular arrangement can be paper-worthy.