I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.
I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.
Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
I was going to engineering school but fell in love with physics.
They told me that, as a woman, I'd never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
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.
In 1990, I was an undergraduate freshman archeology major sneaking over to the English building and unearthing an amazing repository of books I'd never even suspected. By 1998, I'd have my Ph.D.
I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.