Abandoned Quote by John Pople

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

— 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

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

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

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

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

— William Standish Knowles

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

— Jeff Bezos

I dropped chemistry. I practically blew up the lab in college.

— Patricia Cornwell

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

— Harry Mathews

Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what…

— John Muir

From age 16 on, I found school boring and failed A-level Physics at my first attempt. This was necessary for university entrance, and so…

— Richard J. Roberts

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

— Bill Foster