For Our Immediate Family And Relatives, Canada

By The Time I Reached High School My Father's Grocery Store Had Made Our Life Adequately Comfortable And I Was Able To Choose, Without Any Practical Encumbrances, The Subjects That I Wanted To Pursue In College.

Indeed, We Are Privileged To Have Been Afforded The Opportunity To Study Nature And To Follow Our Own Thoughts And Inspirations In A Time Of Relative Tranquillity And In A Land With A Generous And Forward-looking Government.

I Was Born In Montreal In 1939, The Second Son Of Poor Immigrants.

About Seven Years Later I Was Given A Book About The Periodic Table Of The Elements. For The First Time I Saw The Elegance Of Scientific Theory And Its Predictive Power.

Nevertheless, As Is A Frequent Occurrence In Science, A General Hypothesis Was Constructed From A Few Specific Instances Of A Phenomenon.