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Martin Lewis Perl
American
Physicist
Born:
Jun 24
,
1927
Being
Good
Me
Parents
School
Work
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As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
Martin Lewis Perl
Poverty
Jews
Russia
Left
Escape
Families
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl
Class
Parents
Determined
Were
Move
Middle
Middle Class
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Martin Lewis Perl
School
Parents
Immigrants
Higher
School Teachers
Did
Regarded
Teachers
Many
Beings
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
Martin Lewis Perl
School
Police
Station
Parent
Had
Robbed
Police Station
Because
Child
Bank
Being
Serious
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
Martin Lewis Perl
Today
Me
World
Sometimes
Parents
Outside
Schools
Learned
Deal
Often
Hard
Painful
Early
Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
Martin Lewis Perl
Changed
Curriculum
Cannot
Natures
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematics
Me
Parents
Whatever
Boring
Talented
Course
Expected
Whether
Interesting
Languages
This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.
Martin Lewis Perl
Work
Good
Training
Sometimes
Research
Gifted
Boring
Involve
Particularly
Parts
Because
Experimental
Which
Skills
Use
Large
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
Martin Lewis Perl
Mathematics
History
Travel
Science
Everything
Read
Fiction
Biography
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
Martin Lewis Perl
Me
Sports
Hundred
All Americans
Percent
More
Because
Were
American
Being
Children
Wanted
Loved
Sensitive
Believed
Play
Played
I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.
Martin Lewis Perl
Buy
Me
Parents
Chemistry
Willing
Also
Were
Interested
Set
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
Martin Lewis Perl
Work
Strange
Book
Back
Tell
Students
Look
Learned
Equipment
Answers
Quickly
Graduate
Graduate Students
Measurements
Now
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
Martin Lewis Perl
Depression
War
Good
Youth
Years
Child
Fortune
Good Fortune
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