From: Hiroshi Fujita <lvl79@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>
  To  : RASMB@bbri.harvard.edu
  Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 11:28:30 +0900

Merry Christmas

Dear RASMB:
Some of our club may be interested in who was the pioneer for the
sedimentation equilibrium in chemically reacting systems.  It was Tiselius
of Uppsala, a Nobel Prize winner,  in as early as 1926.  Then who came
next?  It was E. T. Admas (now Texas A & M) and I in 1961, 35 years after
Tiselius,  who read a primitive work at an UC symposium held in the
Rockfeller Institute, New Tork.  Shortly after I began talking in my
halting English I was stopped going by an old-looking person who pointed
out our elementary error on the use of chemical potentials.  All a sudden
my brain turned white, and I don't remember what I spoke after that.  It
was indeed a shameful moment for me, but I was greatly consoled by a kind
encouragement he whispered me when I was playing table tennis with
Professor Schachman, if my rememebr is correct, after enjoying a dinner. 
Who was he? He was Professor L. Onsager of Yale, another Nobel Prize
winner.  Please guess what was like the UC study some 40 years ago. 
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
HF
Hiroshi Fujita
35 Shimotakedono-Cho, Shichiku, Kita-Ku
Kyoto, Japan
Phone/Fax: +75-491-2061
e-mail: lvl79@mbox.kyoto-inet.jp