I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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.

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.

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

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

I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.

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