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I was interested in nuclei originally with my deuteron photo work because that was one of the fundamental forces, and the measurement was basic to new science.

With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.

Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that.

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.