It would have been much easier for me to write this ACKNOWLEDGEMENT if I were a well established scientist of international fame. I could then write in a pastoral manner about sweet recollections of the past, starting with a certain scientist, also internationally famous of course, who came to visit my lab and suggested that I should write such a book. Knowing that the whole world was watching and waiting, I had set aside all the other very important works and devoted most of my time to the writing of this path-blazing masterpiece. Every draft chapter was snatched away by a whole wolf pack of world authorities who.
