I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
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In 1958, I was a delegate to the Atoms for Peace conference in Geneva.Frederick Reines
The idea of searching for the elusive neutrino had, in fact, occurred to me as early as 1947, but the opportunity did not present itself.
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However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
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Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.
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Most of these experiments required the reduction of the cosmic ray muon flux in order to be successful, and the group necessarily became expert in the operation of deep underground laboratories.
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I served as Dean until 1974, when I stepped down to return to full time teaching and research.
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