Degrees Quote by Jerome Isaac Friedman

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics…

— Burton Richter

In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding…

— Francois Englert

As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my…

— Francois Englert

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

— John Cameron

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

— Frederick Reines

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

— John Henry Carver

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

— Martin Ryle

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

— Elizabeth Moon

I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and…

— David Lee

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as…

— Sidney Altman

I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959.

— John Forbes Nash, Jr