Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-487) and index.
Prologue -- Philadelphia -- Harvard years -- MIT 1955-1960 -- MIT 1961-1971 -- MIT 1961-1971 : mostly about science -- Yee ha! : off to Texas -- Good times in the 1980s -- From 1990 to the end of the millennium -- The new millennium -- More about people -- A concluding miscellany -- Epilogue -- Appendices. A. Ph. D. students -- B. Postdoctorals -- C. Visitors -- D. Priestly lecture : Science today--what follows the golden age -- E. Publications -- F. Some former Ph. D. students.