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" I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors. "
Professors
Much
I Feel
" I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation. "
New
Physics
Ideas
" I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago. "
University
Special
Army
" In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools. "
Power
More
Laws
" In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934. "
New York
American
Children
" In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. "
University
Chicago
Chemistry
" I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. "
Remember
Propaganda
Face
" I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation. "
Easily
Experimentation
State
" I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. "
End
Depression
Family
" I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath. "
Year
Oath
Because
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