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I started doing experiments - mostly in organic chemistry, because it was so much more interesting - in my mother's laundry at home.

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.

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

My special fascination has been to understand better the world of chemistry and its complexities.

My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in time for my past to catch up with me in the form of a Nobel Prize. All detours should be so productive!

I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.