Even today, I am struggling with someone who wrote the obituary for Bob Chanock who unfortunately died about a year ago. The obituary I discovered was printed in the newsletter of the International Organisation of Mycoplasmology, so it goes out to every mycoplasmologist in the world who's a member and most of them are. It was also printed in several medical journals about a year ago and it's hard to believe – I won't go into the details – but I'm having... and in the obituary it was stated outright that Bob Chanock discovered mycoplasma pnuemoniae. In fact, a couple of years after the paper was written, Bob was given several awards for this discovery, many of them were significant cash prizes. Not that I care about the cash prizes so much, but I was a young kid at the time. I was in my early 30s. I didn't appreciate what I now appreciate, of course, and that is the recognition that scientists seek for their observations. I thought I was doing something to help humanity and that belief held forth for a couple more years into my cell culture research that I greatly regret. I thought the reward that you get was helping humanity, not being rewarded for some financial reason, or for recognition. It's hard to believe in today's scientific environment.