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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry."
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"For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'"
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"Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test."
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"I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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"A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising."
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"In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available."
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"All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students."
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"America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive."
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"I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing."
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"I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool."
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"I did a thesis in experimental nuclear physics under the direction of Samuel K. Allison."
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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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"Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer."
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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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"One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France."
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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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"My primary and secondary education was provided by the Highland Park Public School System."
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"During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays."
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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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