  After an accolade to Joshua Jortner, we trace the influences of his Chemistry
background in his Physics writings. On the way, we note the richness of Physics
in principles (or large-scale laws) and the fact-orientedness of Chemistry.
  Next we turn to a recent laser-induced electron-detachment experiment and
utilize analytic properties of the developing wave-packet in the (complex) time
domain, studied by us previously, to relate the phase of the optimized laser
field to its intensity. It is suggested that these results can be used to
reduce the labor of pulse optimization in phase-intensity controlled reaction
dynamics. Phase-intensity interdependencies are also established in simulated
results (obtained with the END-algorithm) for photo-excited hydrogen-molecules.
