1960s Quote by John E. Walker

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry…

— Michael Smith

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received…

— John Pople

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

— Bill Foster

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

— William Standish Knowles

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and…

— Frederick Sanger

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

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

My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that…

— Wallace Carothers

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as…

— Simon Newcomb

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

— Steven Weinberg

In 1903, I finished my doctor's thesis and obtained the degree. At the end of the same year, the Nobel prize was awarded jointly…

— Marie Curie

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in…

— Richard Ernst