How to be right and wrong : Sir John Cornforth. VRS 4.

The Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Comforth, overcomes his deafness to present an elegant account of how he and his wife, Rita, disentangled a historically important puzzle in steroid synthesis. Meticulous detective work uncovered the fact that an erroneous step had previously been made in the application of a correct rule in a prevous study. Early examples of powerful modern synthetic chemistry techniques, such as cascade reactions, are to be found in this work.