My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.

When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.

The long-lived K meson was discovered at Brookhaven.

The Director of the Laboratory, George Reynolds, was most supportive of my efforts to work independently. There followed for ten years a glorious time for research.