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“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass “Everything’s got a moral …”Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland I was born in 1974…

I was born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin – just outside Milwaukee – in February 1944, two years after my sister Judy. My parents were born in the U.S. in 1903 and 1905; they both had independent careers until my sister was born; then my mother stayed at home to be with my sister and me. My…

Peter Higgs was born on 29 May 1929 in the Elswick district of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He graduated with First Class Honours in Physics from King’s College, University of London, in 1950. A year later, he was awarded an MSc and started research, initially under the supervision of Charles Coulson and, subsequently, Christopher Longuet-Higgins.…

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michèle, Anne, Georges from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin and Sarah, Hélène from a second one with Danielle Vindal. My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old.…

The most deeply formative events of my scientific career long preceded my first contact with the research community; indeed, some of them preceded my birth. My grandparents emigrated from Europe in the aftermath of World War I, as young teenagers; on my father’s side they came from Poland and on my mother’s side from Italy,…

I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter. In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me. The most influential teachers in my undergraduate years…

Apart from several monographs on physics and astrophysics, I have published two books which are collections of various articles of scientific, semi-scientific and general, social and political character. Some of these articles contain rather much biographical material. So I do not have any wish to come back to my autobiography. However, it is the wish…

Murray Gell-Mann was born on 15th September 1929, in New York City. He obtained his B.Sc. at Yale University in 1948, and his Ph.D. in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1952 he became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, during 1952-1953 he was instructor at the University of Chicago, from…

I was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on October 30, 1941. My parents had moved there from their native Breslau a few years earlier. As far as I can tell, I am the only academic in our family. My father Karl Hänsch was a businessman engaged in the export of farming machinery, while my mother Marta…