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An autobiography of the late Herman F. Mark, one of the eminent chemists included in the series, "Profiles, Pathways and Dreams". Mark was internationally known for his research on the synthesis, structure, characterization, reactions and properties of natural and synthetic polymers.

Traces the author's career from his early research in "wet" chemistry at Berkeley through his work on ab initio theoretical calculations and his "invention" of a series of compounds, the uranocenes, and analogs to the ferrocenes. This work begins with the neighborhood lots of New York where the author began experimenting with organic synthesis.