In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

The problem of transmitting scientific knowledge is a very difficult business.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.