- He insisted his chemistry students warn him before they started exhaust fans in his chemistry lab classes. The clinkety-clank noise of the fans starting sounded too much like machine gun fire. He would literally hit the deck.
- He was found dead in bed. The morning after his interviews with Canadian film crew for "The Real Inglorious Bastards".
- After the war he was knighted by the Quenn of the Netherlands. He also received medals from the United States, France, and Austria.
- Taught chemistry at the University of Minnesota and Tulane.
- Was regarded as on the founders of asymmetric organocatalysis. He founded Syncom. A company specializing in organic synthesis.
- Parachuted into Austria with Fred Mayer as part of Operation Greenup. They were to monitor German Military movements.
- As a Lieutenant on the troop ship home. He was give a bad time by all the captains, majors, colonels, and generals on board the ship. But he won out in the end. When the boat docked. The army sent trucks for the other officers. The OSS sent a new white Cadillac with a good looking female driver.
- Eventually returned to the Netherlands and taught at the University of Groningen.
- After the war he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin.
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