In this book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. NMR spectroscopy, computational chemistry, the drama of buckminsterfullerene, the story of the Pill, the politics of atmospheric chemistry and the resonance theory, the beginnings of molecular mechanics and modern stereochemistry are examples of the topics discussed first-hand by, in all likelihood, the most appropriate persons.Contents: Linus PaulingErwin ChargaffQuotable ChargaffFrank H WestheimerGertrude B ElionCarl DjerassiPaul J ScheuerAyhan UlubelenJohn W CornforthQuotable CornforthVladimir PrelogDerek H R BartonOdd HasselMichael J S DewarJohn A PopleRoald HoffmannKenichi FukuiMilton OrchinF Albert CottonHerbert C BrownGeorge A OlahJohn D RobertsRichard R ErnstEiji OsawaElena G Gal'pern and Ivan V StankevichHarold W KrotoRichard E SmalleyRobert F CurlWolfgang KratschmerRobert L WhettenPhilip E EatonR Stephen BerryKenneth S PitzerF Sherwood RowlandNikolai N SemenovGeorge PorterAhmed H ZewailReadership: Chemists.