My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.
From Rudolph A. Marcus
I have always loved going to school.
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
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.
My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).
During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory!
Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
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.
After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.
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