My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
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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.
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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
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