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" About 1960, it became clear that it was best for me to bring the experimental part of my research program to a close - there was too much to do on the theoretical aspects - and I began the process of winding down the experiments. "

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" After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes. "

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" Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while! "

" During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry. "

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" My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set. "

" My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill. "

" My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem. "

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" After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began. "

" Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents. "

" Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience. "

" I have always loved going to school. "

" Nevertheless, the realization that breaking a pencil point would have far less disastrous consequences played little or no role, I believe, in this decision to explore theory! "