ABSTRACT
Special rewards for research, well endowed research centers and institutes on the campus, and 'Research professorships' clearly were not necessary in the production of geniuses, as Berkeley's roster made evident all over the world. There was no lightening of teaching loads, nor any other special stimuli, to make possible these and other giants in the Berkeley hills, as the author still like to think of them. One of the advantages of research giants on a campus is their capacity, by their mere presence, to attract others of comparable mettle. Andrew Lawson was the oldest of the greats on the campus when the author came up to Berkeley. Emeritus by then, he was nevertheless a familiar figure on the campus, his name adorned by numerous legends. Gilbert Lewis a chemist, he had been brought to Berkeley in 1912 by President Wheeler—his mission, to create the best college of chemistry in the world.
