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It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.
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The postdoc explained to me how to distinguish different sorts of particles on the basis of the amounts of energy they deposited in various sorts of detectors, spark chambers, calorimeters, what have you.
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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
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The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
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Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
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Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
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My head was always bubbling over with facts and it seems to me this had little to do with my paying close attention in school and more to do with my voracious and omnivorous reading habits.
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As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
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There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.
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Six months after that, I left Taiwan, first for Hong Kong and then for mainland China, where I spent another three months studying still more Chinese and generally kicking around the country.
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
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My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.
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