Remembering Donald Meybin Wilson, chemist and sailor who drove around Berkeley in a red Alfa Romeo convertible

An accomplished research chemist with a specialty in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, he was also a lawyer (he passed the California and Hawaii bar exams as a hobby in his 50s), a comedian and a fitness buff.

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