I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.
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I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
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Like many other Laureates, I have benefit immeasurably from the love and support of my wife and children.
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On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
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From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
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I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.
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I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
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Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
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