My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

In 1975 I met Alison Brown and in 1982 we were married. She works for Cornell Computer Services.

Industry now should become a full partner of government in supporting longrange basic research.

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.