Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Leave the atom alone.
I was glad I liked chemistry.
My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
I love nuclear.
We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.
Chemists have always been in the business of taking atoms and putting them together with other atoms with precisely defined connections.
I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.