
A nuclear physicist learned to listen in scrapyards, turned stubborn measurement problems into handheld products, and built SciAps toward a deal worth up to $260 million. His second laboratory is louder: a NASCAR garage.
SciAps began with a stubborn technical gap: the field's standard X-ray guns could not see the light elements its customers cared about. A decade of lasers, X-rays and muddy-boots product development turned that blind spot into a fast-growing instrumentation business.