White
Head
Essay on March
2, 2014
Kazuchika Ohta
International
Conferences are very good chance to meet old friends and make new young
friends.
On 27 Feb (2014)
in last week, I met Prof. Yves Henry Geerts, Universite libre de Bruxelles, in
the 2nd International Symposium on Self-Organizing Molecular Semiconductors
(2nd SOMS) held in Tokyo Institute Technology. It has past 12 years since we
met in Trieste, Italy, 2002, for Conference on the 25th Anniversary of
Discovery of Discotic Liquid Crystals. At first I could not recognize him, at a glance of his white head. My head also
becomes white. Both of us could not recognize each other at first. The opening
key note speaker was Prof. Hanna and the chairperson was this white head, who
introduced himself as Yves Geerts. After the talk of Prof. Hanna, I approached
to Yves and told him. gYves, I am Kazu Ohta. Nice, meet you again!h He
answered, gOh, I remember you. We met Italy and it past 11 years.h We saw our
white head each other. With laughing, I confessed that at my first glance of
your white head, I could not recognize you." "Me too." C'est la
vie!
I lived in Paris
as the first postdoctoral fellow of Prof. Jaques Simon, ESPCI, for one year in
1986-87. It is 27 years ago. In this symposium, I met one young French
researcher, Dr. Fabrice Mathevet, Paris Institute of Molecular Chemistry. After
his nice talk, I introduced myself to him and talk with him. From his
self-introduction, It became apparent that he was the last doctor course
student of Prof. Skoulios, Strasbourg. During my stay in Paris, I visited
Strasbourg to meet Prof. Skoulious. We know many common persons. World is
small!
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