Tesladyne / atomic Robo

Apply the Indiana Jones model for research to physics,
and you have - atomic Robo.
A comic that is available freely on the web about
a nuclear powered human form robot built by Nikola Tesla
in the 1920s, given citizenship in exchange for fighting Nazis and other bad guys.
he establishes Tesladyne labs to push forward the bounds of human knowledge,
and fight really weird evil