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

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

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

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

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