How To Go The Distance
Nate Ballou, 95
America's oldest practicing nuclear chemist
Whatever your situation, make long-term goals and keep them in mind as the years pass, but also be open to all of life’s opportunities. I’ve always been pretty focused on my research. I never felt distracted by extraneous things. But balance is important too. My wife and I have been married for 41 years. We landscape a lot. We also devote a couple of weeks to travel every year. Maybe that balance didn’t help directly with my science, but it helped me to be a better person and therefore probably more