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, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end,… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily reject religion. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
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, Christmas 1934. — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a… — Jack Steinberger Copy Share Image
