Addressing the Challenge of Molecular Change: An Interim Report

Invited by the editorial committee of the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry to “contribute my autobiography,” I present it here, as I understand the term. It is about my parents, my mentors, my coworkers, and my friends in learning and the scientific problems that we tried to address. Courtesy of the editorial assistance of Annual Reviews, some of the science is in the figure captions and sidebars. I am by no means done: I am currently trying to fuse the quantitative rigor of physical chemistry with systems biology while also dealing with a post–Born-Oppenheimer regime in electronic dynamics and am trying to instruct molecules to perform advanced logic. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Physical Chemistry Volume 69 is April 20, 2018. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.