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.

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

I have always loved going to school.

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

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

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

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.