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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.
My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
We are united in the hope that every individual will someday enjoy at least the intellectual privileges we have had, if not always the material advantages.
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
