$450,000 grant pays for researchers Ken Nagamine is trying to figure out where you came from. Specifically, where the molecules that make up your body came from, or at least how they came together to form a person. He wants to know the origins of the Earth, the sun, the galaxies, the supermassive black holes and the exploding stars and the space gases and the atoms within those gases. How did all that stuff come together to form things?