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I'll never forget the fall colors on the Berkshires.

I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.

I was particularly good at math and science.

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.

My family gave me the best in education.