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I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system - I…

— Vandana Shiva

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions…

— Taylor Wilson

Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to…

— John Henry Carver

I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison.

— James Cronin

I was brought up as a physicist.

— Gerhard Herzberg

Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.

— David Gross

I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I…

— Rhonda Byrne

When I was a college student at Yale, I was studying physics and mathematics and was absolutely intent on becoming a theoretical physicist.

— James Rothman

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the…

— Alan J. Heeger

I was a senior research scientist that changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. I disproved one of the then widely…

— Chien-Shiung Wu

“From the age of 13, I was attracted to physics and mathematics. My interest in these subjects derived mostly from popular science books that…

— David Gross

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was…

— Andrei Sakharov