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This paper is partly a brief academic autobiography. It begins in 1942 when I volunteered for lifesaving research for the Royal Navy. This brought me to a Department headed by a very unusual Professor, R.A. McCance, an eccentric and a polymath. I have tried to say something about him and the Department. After the war, McCance gave me the Ph.D. project: The Effect of Ventromedial Lesions in the Hypothalamus...