[From being married to a working scientist, my sneaking suspicion is that the best way to win a scientist's heart is to cut through all the red tape when working with them. That, or make sure that no one's presentation runs over by two hours during a one-hour meeting. As far as I can tell, half of what he does is meetings, and he's an experimental gravitational astrophysicist, for crying out loud.

Other things: shiny new equipment. Shiny new equipment that doesn't break at ass o'clock. Plentiful supply of minions grad students--perhaps attentive Shuos underlings seconded to the Nirai? Generalized interest in and appreciation of the sciences. Getting their bad science puns.]