Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Foreword David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., Founding Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition xiii
Prologue xvii
Part I The Early Years 1
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." Tony Robbins 1
Chapter 1 My Early Childhood and Fascination with Science 3
Chapter 2 My First Hands-on Experience with Science 13
Chapter 3 Drag Racing and Linus Pauling 37
Chapter 4 College Bound 55
Part II The Science 63
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." Thomas Jefferson
Chapter 5 Graduate School and Basic Research 65
Chapter 6 My Early Career in the Drug Industry 81
Chapter 7 My Burning Question 95
Part III A Nobel Discovery 115
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chapter 8 My Basic Research on Nitric Oxide 117
Chapter 9 Connecting the Dots 129
Chapter 10 The Discovery that Led to the Nobel Prize 145
Chapter 11 Confirmation 151
Chapter 12 Erectile Function and the "Father of Viagra" 175
Chapter 13 Sharon Elizabeth Williams 197
Part IV The Nobel Prize 217
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." Helen Keller
Chapter 14 Nobel Prize Announcement 219
Chapter 15 Celebration after Celebration 237
Chapter 16 Ceremony in Stockholm 251
Part V Post-Nobel and New Findings 275
"Logic will get you from point A to point B, but imagination will take you everywhere." Albert Einstein
Chapter 17 A Centennial to Remember 277
Chapter 18 Back in Los Angeles 293
Chapter 19 The Nobel Prize Changed My Life 303
Chapter 20 Full Circle 311
Epilogue 327
Acknowledgements 331