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Jack Steinberger
American
Physicist
Born:
May 25
,
1921
Chicago
Children
Easily
Family
Oath
Work
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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.
Jack Steinberger
Work
Depression
Good
Family
Engineering
Good Student
Student
Supplement
Studied
Scholarship
Chemical
Came
Were
End
Times
Hard
Hard Times
Income
Necessary
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.
Jack Steinberger
Christmas
Find
Charities
Bound
New
Were
German
Offered
American
York
Refugee
New York
Children
Washington
Homes
Jewish
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.
Jack Steinberger
Army
Few
Wave
Months
Introduction
Given
Joined
Course
MIT
Chicago
Laboratory
After
Sent
Personnel
Radiation
Theory
Special
Electromagnetic
University
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.
Jack Steinberger
Education
Higher Education
Power
Public Schools
Jews
Systematic
Followed
Laws
More
Higher
Excluded
Schools
Came
Were
Persecution
Quickly
Children
Which
Public
Jewish
I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger
Loyalty
Year
Sign
Berkeley
Oath
Only
Partly
Because
Survived
Declined
I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger
Remember
Election
Face
Hateful
Posters
Crooked
Propaganda
Nose
Showing
Jewish
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
Jack Steinberger
Generation
Physics
Could
Had
New
Ideas
Learn
New Ideas
Might
Younger
Younger Generation
Compete
I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
Jack Steinberger
Students
Feel
Fellow
Learned
Fellow Students
Much
Professors
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