Licheng Sun, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden:

The best chemistry adventure in my career was the discovery of a molecular water oxidation catalyst with a water molecule as the seventh ligand.

Peter J. Sadler, University of Warwick, UK:

The most amusing chemistry adventure in my career was encouraging my first year undergraduates to say the names of and write the chemical symbols for the first 103 elements on a blank periodic table in the shortest possible time.

Manuel Alcarazo, Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany:

My favorite piece of research is Werner’s coordination theory. All done without NMR, HRMS, or X-ray diffraction!

Tomislav Rovis, Colorado State University, USA:

My favorite time of day is right before dinner time, when the bottle of wine is open and I’m about to take a sip.

Jieping Zhu, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, France:

My favorite quote is “To study without thinking is futile, to think without studying is dangerous” (Confucius).

Hisashi Yamamoto, Chubu University, Japan:

I chose chemistry as a career because it is so beautiful and yet still mysterious. I decided to be a chemist when I was 10 years old and I have never to this day regretted that rather early decision.

Jun-An Ma, Tianjin University, China:

If I could go back in time and do any experiment, it would be the discovery of penicillin.