In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children f….

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Chris….

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store..

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath..

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business..

I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion..

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation..

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course,….

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose..

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors..

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation..

The pretention that some of us are better than others, I don't think is a very good thing. And who is contributing what to our progress in science is….

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was nece….