It was not a tranquil time.People argued with their friends about the very basics of reality.Spouses vehemently disagreed.Each and every person was on one side or the other side.
"Bob Fay was an excellent inorganic chemist, superb at analyzing the variety of ways by which the atoms surrounding a central metal atom in an inorganic molecule move around, rearranging themselves into a different geometry. Bob's work was beautifully reasoned and always reliable."