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..

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 i….

The RNA World referred to an hypothetical stage in the origin of life on Earth..

Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative….

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 s….

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants..

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity..

Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon..

By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical ….

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo….

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and won….