My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.
Soon after my degree, in 1958 I went to the United States to enlarge my experience and to familiarize myself with particle accelerators. I spent about one and a half years at Columbia University.
As an undergrad, I studied engineering physics at the University of Oklahoma, and all my degrees are from engineering departments. My father wanted me to join him in the oil-field business in Oklahoma, but I wanted to be a scientist.
My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.
In 1960, I earned my Chemistry Degree from Cornell University.
My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
My mother and my father divorced during the time that my father was getting his Ph.D. at Tulane.
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.