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• I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War…
• My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
• My commitment to a humane and peaceful world continues to this day.
• I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto.
• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been…
• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed…
• I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is…
• I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When…
• However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier…
• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices…
• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller…

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