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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.

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Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

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About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

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A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

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Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Physicist

Born: June 24th, 1927

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