Preface -- Contributors to this volume -- 1. My world through science / by Michael Sela -- 2. Hemoglobin kinetics : a retrospect / by Quentin H. Gibson -- 3. From reindeers to synchrotrons : personal recollections / by Carl-Ivar Bränden -- 4. The way to Oleg Ptitsyn and beyond / by Henryk (Heini) Eisenberg -- 5. Peptides and the enzymes that release or inactivate them : a short history of my life and work entwined / by Ervin G. Erdös -- Establishment of the concept that cancer is a disease of DNA : serendipitous discoveries in my research career concerning the science of carcinogenesis / by Takashi Sugimura -- 7. The tribulations of a stateless European child in his discovery of America and his thorny path to protein thermodynamics / by Serge N. Timasheff -- 8. Yeast transport-ATPases and the genome-sequencing project / by André Goffeau