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Pure Appl. Chem., 2005, Vol. 77, No. 7, pp. 1089-1106

http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200577071089

From a Meccano set to nano meccano

J. Fraser Stoddart

California NanoSystems Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, 405 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Abstract: The hurly-burly life of a scientific nomad is traced through thick and thin from the Athens of the North to the City of Angels with brief and not so brief interludes on the edge of the Canadian Shield, in the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire, on the Plains of Cheshire beside the Wirral, and in the Midlands in the heartland of Albion.