I had a project for my life which involved 10 years of wandering, then some years of medical studies and, if any time was left, the great adventure of physics.
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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 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.
Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
I spent most of my career doing high-energy physics, quarks, dark matter, string theory and so on.
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
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.
I had the idea that it would be wonderful to be a physicist or a mathematician maybe 500 years ago around the time of Newton when there were really fundamental things just lying around to be discovered.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology.
From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.
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