A number of people have provided me with extensive and very insightful comments about their links with Peter, their views of Peter’s impact on science education research and development (very often including their own research and development), and, in almost every case, comments about the remarkable personal qualities of the man himself. I thank them most sincerely, have endeavoured to represent all responses in the above, and apologize to those whom I have not quoted above—a reproduction of all that came to me would have filled this complete issue, and I deliberately did not go beyond science education academics to the other fields of Peter’s significant influence/achievements. And I apologize also to those who, as in some cases I already know, would certainly very much have wanted to make their own comments had they been aware I was writing this article. The academics who sent me comments are Hanna Arzi, Debbie Corrigan, Roger Cross, Justin Dillon, Reinders Duit, Gaalen Erickson, Rod Fawns, Marilyn Fleer, Jim Gaskell, John Hill, Edgar Jenkins, Alister Jones, Arthur Lucas, Cam McRobbie, Robin Millar, Ian Mitchell, Greg Ramsey, Léonie Rennie, Doug Roberts, Svein Sjøberg, Jinwoong Song, David Treagust, Russell Tytler, Leo West, and Dick White. In trying to ensure representation of the plethora of views of Peter’s remarkable career (so far), I have given almost none of my own personal perceptions. Here, then, I wish to formally record the extraordinary impact on my own career that has come from 35 years of working with (never ‘for’) Peter—a remarkable leader and colleague and friend.