FROM COLOGNE TO CHAPEL HILL PROFILES, PATHWAYS, AND DREAMS. Autobiographies of Eminent Chemists.

Dr. Eliel gained fame for his forty years of research in stereochemistry and conformational analysis. He tells of a fascinating life beginning with his flight from Nazi Germany through his worldwide studies and work at Notre Dame and the University of North Carolina. Included in this volume are many photographs and discussion of his scientific studies.

"Eliel calls his profile 'From Cologne to Chapel Hill', an international title since he felt 'always a member of the international confraternity of chemists'. He gave lectures about his researches in French, but had no time to read French novels, which he was advised to do by a senior critic to improve his French vocabulary on the occasion of a conference at Montpellier. He became famous for a structural formula of an N-alkyl group thought to look like the ears of a rabbit. When he published these results in Kemisk Tidskrift, the editor of the Swedish journal put a full size picture of a rabbit on the cover. (But this can only be considered as a minor example of chemical humour when compared ... with the extravagant examples of 100 years ago.) Eliel preferred to work alone and not as a member of a team: 'On the whole I have not enjoyed such collaborative efforts', proof of his strong personality."--Interdisciplinary Science Reviews