There's a lot of teaching jobs available, and if you think about it there's a lot of skill overlap. Students are an audience you have to keep engaged.
Wow that sounds super interesting. Did he have any cool stories?
Some fun ones. What was more interesting to me was that a couple of my contemporaries who were taught by him also then went on to be in top ten groups.
Just as a point of comparison, how many of your contemporaries who were taught by him went on to become chemists?