"Surface Science Forever!" is what I used to think about and to cry in critical situations as in the case shown in that picture on the left: extremely cold water was licking my boots at the shore of Atlantic Ocean somewhere in New Jersey ... (see here)


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I am a scientist who is eager to know everything about phenomena taking place at solid surfaces^*) ... and ... I am also a father of two lovely daughters, a husband of a beautiful woman and a proud son of my parents.

*) The surface of a solid is its skin, an interface through which a body communicates or interacts with outer world, its environment. "...The surface ... may be changed by the surrounding medium either unintentionally (e.g. by corrosion) or intentionnally due to technological demands. Intentional changes are made in order to refine or protect surfaces ..." [Surf. and Thin Film Anal., ed. H. Bubert and H. Jenett, 2002] " ...Surface science is a well-established part of physics and chemistry, with a highly developed arsenal of experimental tools and methods..." [D.Menzel, Science 295 (2002) 58]