Molecular rearrangements have long entranced the romantic spirits among organic chemists. While their colleagues plodded away, measuring minute rate differences and defining the structures of transition states for common reactions ever more precisely, students of molecular rearrangements raced ahead, hap-Bernard Miller received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, where he worked on free-radical halogenations, Finding these reactions insufficiently radical, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in steroid synthesis at the University of Wisconsin. This invaluable experience having taught him that his talents did not lie in natural product chemistry, he joined the American Cyanamid Co., synthesizing insecticides. Finding insects unexpectedly tough adversaries, he entered the academic life at the University of Massachusetts, where he is presently Professor of Chemistry. In addition to his research papers, he is the author of some 20 patents, none of which has ever increased his Income. His present research interests lie principally in the fields of molecular rearrangements and the reactions of blocked aromatic molecules.

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