During the war years I worked on the development of radar and other radio systems for the R.A.F. and, though gaining much in engineering experience and in understanding people, rapidly forgot most of the physics I had learned.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think that I got committed to physics at the age of - oh, it must have been 1942 - ten, when most countries were at war and children were interested in airplanes and bombs and such things.
In the late '30's when I was in college, physics - and in particular, nuclear physics - was the most exciting field in the world.
I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.
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.
My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics.
I was always good at math and science and physics.