"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."

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"My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city."

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"However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library."

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