jats:titleAbstract</jats:title>jats:pThis is a summary of my scientific career, biased by my personal view of events and unashamedly concentrating on those aspects of some of the scientific developments to which I have contributed. A selective unbiased alternative has been written by Christensen-Dalsgaard and Thompson (A selective overview. In: Thompson, M.J., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. (Eds.) jats:italicStellar Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics</jats:italic>, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1 – 19, 2003), followed by some further remarks by Christensen-Dalsgaard (jats:italicUnsolved Problems in Stellar Physics: A Conference in Honour of Douglas Gough</jats:italic>, American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 948, xii, 2007).</jats:p>