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From ideas to industry: a theoretical physicist’s journey into Silicon Valley

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When Ryan Hamerly was a 15-year-old at Boulder High School in Colorado, he spent his summer building a Tesla coil after seeing a classroom demonstration. “I thought that was really, really cool,” he recalls. “I wanted to make one myself, and as a result I ended up studying the theory of electricity and magnetism over one summer.”
In hindsight, Hamerly realizes he didn’t use much theory to construct the coil, which became part of a school physics project. “Most of the design was based on th

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