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Published online 3 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452673a
Bill Foster
At the age of 19, Bill Foster started a theatrical lighting company that now provides equipment for rock concerts and Super Bowl shows. A PhD at Harvard led him to Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, where he built electronics for a quark detector. In an election win last month, he entered Congress as a Democratic representative for Illinois. Eric Hand caught up with him.
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