Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments.

After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

I have always loved going to school.