For the past sixty years, including the 1962 to 1967 years at Illinois Wesleyan, Dr. Collins has been studying the role of water in providing order in the living cell. Covalent bonding is accepted as the primary mechanism of order-formation between atoms in the molecular components of living cells; now Dr. Collins has proposed in the three new web sites below, that it is the dynamic covalent linear hydrogen-bonding between water molecules on surfaces of natural molecules which not only provides for their quantized orderly motions and interactions within living cells today but provided for their selection as integral function unites when cellular evolution began.
Dr. Collins was a breath of fresh air to the science department and got me to go to u. of Wisconsin grad school. I thank him for my Ph.D. Sadly, I never kept in touch. I am so glad to hear he is alive and well. His enthusiasm for science has obviously never diminished.