Table of contents: Preface. Contributors to this Volume. 1. My world through science (M. Sela). 2. Hemoglobin Kinetics - a retrospect (Q. Gibson). 3. From reindeers to synchrotons. Personal recollections (C.I. Bränden). 4. The way to Oleg Ptitsyn and beyond (H. Eisenberg). 5. Peptides and the enzymes that release or inactivate them: a short history of my life and work entwined (E.G. Erdös). 6. Establishment of the concepts that cancer is a disease of DNA: Serendipitous discoveries in my research career concerning the science of carcinogenesis (T. Sugimura). 7. The tribulations of a stateless European child in his discovery of America and his thorny path to protein thermodynamics (S.N. Timasheff). 8. Yeast transport-ATPases and the genome-sequencing project (A. Goffeau).