 Following his groundbreaking research in organic molecules that has improved medicine and impacted lives, A.H. Negishi won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. My name is A.H. Negishi. I am currently a chemistry professor emeritus at Purdue University. I came to this country around 1960 on scholarship. Coming to Purdue, my desire to do my research work in the United States, so I began looking around. To me, Professor Herbert C. Brown at Purdue University was my father number one choice. In this way I was able to join him, join his group in 1966. Ever since I have been associated with Purdue, and Purdue has treated me very well, but probably I was also fortunate because my single-minded obsession, there are more than one, but one of the biggest ones was to win a Nobel Prize. I was sort of telling people if I can get this done, this done, this done, then there should be a very good chance for me to win a Nobel Prize, which eventually turned out to be true. So now everything, everybody, everybody's happy, but I needed to, I needed to struggle. That was A.H. Negishi. Look for more stories at purdue.edu slash footprints.