After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

I have always loved going to school.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.