supervisor, Charles Coulson, later wrote: [his] exuberant delight in life remained with him to the end.
"Moffit's method of Atoms in Molecules" will remain for many years to remind us of his remarkable ability to initiate new ways of thinking in his professional subject.After receiving his D.Phil.
[2] His colleague Edgar Bright Wilson said: Few men had as great an impact at so early an age.
Few have been endowed with such a sparkling, quick and keen intelligence, with such a capacity for spending long hours in the thorough study of fundamental subjects ... His intellectual powers were not only applied to the solution of problems but perhaps even more to their wise selection.
[3] While sharing a cabin with a monk on a voyage to the UK from the US, he discussed the philosophy of religion with him in their only common language, Latin.