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"In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics."
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"Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio."
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"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."
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"Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."
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"Mahalia Jackson, I grew up around the corner from in Chicago."
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"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."
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"I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style."
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"I'm from Chicago. My grandfather was a policeman, and my aunts are married to policemen."
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"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
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"My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student."
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"The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research."
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"While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time."
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"In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country."
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"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."
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"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool."
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"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."
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"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"On even the worst days, when nothing was working at the lab, I knew that at home I would find warmth, peace, companionship, and encouragement. As a consequence, the next day would surely be better."
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