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I Spent Eighteen Months As A Graduate Student In Physics At Columbia University, Waiting Unhappily For An Opportunity To Work In A Laboratory And Wondering If I Should Continue In Physics.

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.

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

The Rna World Referred To An Hypothetical Stage In The Origin Of Life On Earth.

For Our Immediate Family And Relatives, Canada Was A Land Of Opportunity.