Acknowledgments

No statement of credit can fail to include my mother, Paula Ashbacher, who read to me when I was young and recognized long before I did that I was never going to be able to hit a major league fastball or dunk a basketball. Her encouragement of reading and allowing my imagination to roam free has served me very well. Not killing me when she saw my sketches of a bomb also helped.

I also cannot fully express my thanks to Leonardo Lim, chemistry professor par excellence, who is an example to all who aspire to do it right.

Over the years, I have had many students, and they have all had an impact on me. They have forced me to stretch myself to the limits, until I learned that my limits were not what I thought they were.

Finally, I would ...

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