The call, though, came from a group of frazzled researchers at Purdue University who had accidentally broken the very last glass instrument he’d made for them seven years earlier. But by that time, he’d long returned to working in nuclear engineering, his degree field.
“They couldn’t find anybody to recreate what I had done,” said Revis, 34, “so they were asking me questions about glass. I was still interested; I still had a passion for glass.”