Harness the best talent

Harness the best talent

Thackeray and Oman can work anywhere. They can leave Argonne National Laboratory and make their own way. If they choose this path, they will no longer need Department of Energy bureaucrats to review every project proposal. Just explaining whether or not an experiment is safe can be lengthy, so that’s a bonus. However, they do…

Andy Grove’s advice

Andy Grove’s advice

In October 2009, Andy Grove, the former chairman of Intel and the godfather of Silicon Valley, invited Chamberlain and his Argonne team to his home in California. After meeting with Argonne’s team, Grove reviewed the battery race and said he saw silicon chips out of lithium ions. In the 1950s, the first integrated circuits were…