Back to the father: the scientist who lost his dad – and resolved to travel to 1955 to save him

 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/01/back-to-the-father-the-scientist-who-lost-his-dad-and-resolved-to-travel-to-1955-to-save-him

However, the story of how Mallett, now emeritus professor at the University of Connecticut, reached this point could have been lifted straight from a comic book. A year after losing his father, Boyd, at the age of 10, Mallett picked up a copy of HG Wells’s The Time Machine and had an epiphany: he was going to build his own time machine, travel back to 1955 and save his father’s life.