540.92 NAK CONTENTS List of Photographs xiii Preface xviii Editor’s Note xxii A wandering Natural Products Chemist 1 Hong Kong, Lyon, and Alexandria 3 Preuniversity Schooling in Japan 6 Nagoya Imperial University during the War 9 Nagoya Imperial University after the War, 1945-1950 10 Harvard Period, 1950-1952 21 Second Nagoya Period, 1952-1957 29 Tokyo Period, April 1958-March 1963 38 The Third IUPAC Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural products (Kyoto, April 1964 45 Sendai Period, April 1963-July 1969 54 Defects of the japanese Education and Research System 77 Columbia University, August 1969 to the Present 84 Epilogue 168 Coda 179 Acknowledgments 195 References 199 Index 213 PHOTOGRAPHS Family in London when I was 8, 1933 4 Just after graduation from Nagoya University, 1947 11 With Fujio Egami and Toshio Yamada, 1980 12 With Carl Djerassi, 17th IUPAC Natural Products Symposium, New Delhi, 1990 16 With Duilio Arigoni at Chillon Castle, Lausanne, 1986 18 With Professor Yoshimasa Hirata and Shiro Senoh, Japan, 1949 20 At Harvard Square, 1951 21 Mary and Louis Fieser, Tetsuo Nozoe, an dTakanobu Shiokawa, Sendai, 1964 24 With Wei-Yuan Huang, 1986 26 Acting as interpreter for Sir Robert Robinson’s lecture, 1953 31 The Hirata group at Nagoya University, mid-1950s 34 With Hisao Nakata, Takashi Kubota, and Yoshimasa Hirata, Tokeo Sakan, and Yasuhide Yukawa at Nagoya University, mid-1950-s 37 With Carl Djerassi and Hiroshi Kakisawa, Nagoya University, 1957 39 At a snake specially shop in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, with the owner, 1960 39 Wild year-end party, early 1960 41 With Yasuko, Kay, and Jun, in Zoshigaya, Tokyo, early 1960 41 With Manoru Ohashi in my office at Tokyo Kyoiku University, 1960 46 Harry Wasserman, Kenneth Rinehart, and his wife Corky, In Prague, 1962 47 Kyosuke Tsuda and Robert Burns Woodward, IUPAC Kyoto Symposium, 1964 47 Gilbert Stork with Frances Hoffman in His office, 1963 49 Holger Erdtman and Gunhild Aulin-Erdtman, IUPAC Kyoto Symposium, 1964 50 Ian Scott and jim Hanson at the University of Sussex, 1965 50 Jerry Meinwald and Hans Muxfeldt, Ithaca airport, 1967 51 Paul D. Bartlett and Guy Ourisson in Paris, 1965 52 Nelson Leonard singing at Sakunami Spa, 1964 53 Moving from Hayama to Sendai, 1963 54 Alena Englehard at the gravesite of M.M. Shemyakin, 1970 59 Uprooting a ginkgo tree, 1963 63 With Elias J. Corey and students at the 17th IUPAC Symposium, 1990 68 Fa-Ching Chen and Hong-Yen Hsu in Taipei, 1966 69 With Shiro Senoh, Sho Ito, Ichiro Murata, Mrs. Takeo Sakan, Takeo Sakan, and daughter Chizuko, Osaka, 1967 82 Jun, Yasuko, and Kay Nakanishi with Gilbert Stork, New; York, 1965 83 Farewell party at the Tokyo Kyoiku University faculty house, 1969 85 Albert Eschenmoser in his office at the Eidgenossische Technischen Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, June 1965 155 Roger Adams in Urbana-Champaign, May 1965 169 Wang Yu at the opening of the Sino-American Symposium Of the Chemistry of Natural Products, Shanghai, 1980 172 With Yasuko at a party for my 60th birthday, 1985 173 With David Ollis, Charles W. Rees, Derek Barton, Alan Battersby, Leslie Crombie, jack Baldwin, Duilio Arigoni and Dervilla Donnelly, 1988 174 Standing in front of the exhibit the day before receiving The Imperial Prize and the Japan Academy Prize 175 With Empress Michiko, Emperor Akihito, Yoshitaro Wakimura, And Kosuke Hor, 1990 176 Professor Nozoe, Yoko Naya, and Yasuko at the Japan Academy, 1990 176 Yasuko with Kay, Newly born, 1950 182 The late 1950s : with jun, Kay and Yasuko 183 The January 1, 1991, Nakanishi family picture 183 With Professor Hirata in the lab, early 1950s 187 Performing a magic trick for the family, 1960 189 Magic with Roald Hoffman and Herb Brown at the first ISNA, Sendai, 1970 190-193 With Vlado Prelog, 14th IUPAC Natural Products Symposium, Poznan, 1984 194.