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

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

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

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

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.

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

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).