Jack Steinberger Quotes

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.
Jack Steinberger

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
Jack Steinberger

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

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
Jack Steinberger

I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
Jack Steinberger

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

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
Jack Steinberger

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

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

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
Jack Steinberger

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Biography

Type: Physicist
Nationality: American
Born: May 25, 1921

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