Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.