When Ronald was 10 years old, his father died suddenly of a heart attack. He was only 33 years old. After reading a Classics Ilustrated version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine young Ronald was inspired to build such a machine in order to go back in time to save his father. He has not stopped this seemingly impossible pursuit for over 50 years, being one of the first African-Americans to garner a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1973 and being appointed a professorship at the University of Connecticut in 1975. In 2007 he published a memoir: Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality. In 2008 Spike Lee acquired the film rights.
Here is a diagram of Ronald Mallett's proposed time machine:
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