ABSTRACT
My career in chromatography was not planned; it started accidentally when I was doing postdoctoral work in the pharmacology section of Brown University. The head of the section saw a "nucleic acid analyzer" at a meeting and thought it would be helpful in our research. This instrument was actually a high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) dedicated to the separation of nucleotides. If it had been called by its real name, HPLC, I never would have become a chromatographer because our section head did not know what an HPLC was or what it could do for us.
