Timeline of Events/Overview -- Nuclear Foundations -- Origin and Characterization of Medical Carbons -- Gott's Early Experience - A Lesson in Serendipity -- First Carbon Heart Valve Replacement -- First All-Carbon Mitral Valve Replacement -- Monoleaflet Tilting Disc Valves -- First Bileaflet Valve: St Jude Medical Start-up -- General Atomic Medical Products Division -- Carbomedics Gets Acquainted With Intermedics -- Carbomedics Moves to Austin Texas -- The Hemex Venture -- The St Jude Medical Litigation -- Broadening the Horizon -- Two Valves for China -- Negotiating Chinese Joint Venture -- European Company Buys Intermedics -- Medtronic Venture: Carbon Implants -- The Agreement -- Medtronic Clinical Trial -- Medical Carbon Research Institute/On-X Life Technologies -- Valve Design -- Clinical Trials -- Design Validation -- Studies Concurrent With FDA Trials -- Understanding Cardiac Blood Flow -- Investigating the Viability of Bioprostheses -- On-X Valve Implantability -- Selling the On-X Valve -- The Video -- Cryolife Buys On-X Life Technologies -- Mervyn Williams' South African Trial Results -- Summary and Reflections.