Did luck play a role, certainly. Could it have played out another way, for sure (though the dude holds 20 patents for adhesive materials, so that one lucky break probably wasn't a huge deal in his life), but at the end of the day that "luck" would have been meaningless without an advanced degree in ochem and a corporation that spent 50 years studying glue.
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Agreed. But the guy would't have had an advanced degree to begin with in the absence of luck. He was born in the right country. Wasn't abused to the point of being unable to function. His genetic aptitude for analytical subjects must have been pretty high. He must have has some natural mathematical abilities, or at least a natural interest in math. He was able to afford college. Etc., etc., etc. Life is so very random that nobody "earns" their fate in life.