Simon Ramo, a force of nature in 20th-century electronic engineering [Spectral Lines]

There's a meme making the rounds of late that genius is an illusion, and that all great human accomplishments are actually just the result of hard work and a high tolerance for failure. Maybe so in some cases, but it seems to me that human beings like engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, and all-around larger-than-life public citizen Simon Ramo possess a very different, preternatural DNA that I and most of the people I know don't share.