Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

I had the great luck to grow up, together with two sisters, in a town that combined in a unique way ...

However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 1...

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United Sta...