was not going to let up. Awards of plaques and laurels dropped in like free-falling apples rattled by some severe storm. To say that Abdoullah was not overwhelmed with such an outcome would amount to telling a blatant lie. The preliminary report of his research work was so greatly received that he got a grant which would enable him to carry on with it, encouraging Abdoullah to get on with his work. He had hoped that it would end up in a big scientifically beneficial breakthrough. The Nobel Prize was hovering at the back of his mind as an exciting prospect, and it urged him to go on against all odds. 70 He worked on and on until he got bitten by a bug that has become the scourge of the most tragic heroes down the annals, which history reserves for mankind. This was no bug other than ambit

