My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

Most of my teachers probably found I made less trouble if they let me read.

The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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

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

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.