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• My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
• My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System.
• My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.
• While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who…
• When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
• The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.
• The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a…
• Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
• One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
• On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace,…
• In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.
• In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

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