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Martin Lewis Perl
American
June 24, 1927
Physicist
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
Martin Lewis Perl
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My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
Martin Lewis Perl
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Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.
Martin Lewis Perl
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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
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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
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
Martin Lewis Perl
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