Together they build a story of the background circumstances, the sequence of events, and the hard work, perseverance, genius, chemistry, and love of language that culminated in the "golden age" of ASL poetry in the mid-1980s.
He also combined a set of qualities rarely found in a single person: a genius for chemistry, a passion for good design, a daring, innovative style in manufacturing and a genius for marketing.
And to me, it seemed that Stephen Mangan and Darren Boyd (as Gently and sidekick MacDuff) struggle slightly to find the kind of genius-meets-Everyman chemistry that came so easily to Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman in Sherlock.
Structured as a mystery about the authorship of a mathematical proof, it is really about more ethereal mysteries -- the chemistry of love, the nature of genius.
It was a remarkable example of distracted genius suddenly remembering the point, and it was a chemistry that she activated countless times, for millions of entranced listeners.
She won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship at age 32 and was awarded tenure a year later, just 3 years after joining the Berkeley chemistry faculty.
The genius behind his coaching job this year has been that his focus has been far more on developing the chemistry of the team than developing better plays".
"Alan Davison was an intuitive chemical genius who was gifted from an early age with magic hands in the laboratory," says Christopher Cummins, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry.
Most of us are not geniuses, and cannot operate with an encyclopaedic knowledge of metabolism, calcium homeostasis, tissue physiology, bioenergetics and lipid chemistry.
