Perfect days-- and some not so perfect -- The first indication of creativity -- Miracles actually happen! -- Coming to acceptance of my mortality -- The wart and the penny : the importance of uncorrelated events -- "Whither thou goest, I will go" -- Passion for a career as a physicist -- From novice to professor -- The pathway to great science -- "Fire and rain" -- Risk, creativity, and discovery-- again -- The Nobel Prize in chemistry -- The creativity continues : high mobility polymer thin film transistors -- Decision to go West : was it the KGB? -- Life and science in Santa Barbara -- The California entrepreneur : UNIAX Corporation -- The impact of theater of our lives -- Low-cost "plastic" solar cells : a dream becoming a reality -- The serial entrepreneur -- The delicacy of the creative mind -- The joy of life -- Final comments : Mentoring young scientists.
