ABSTRACT
I was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 2, 1938. My mother was a home-maker and an insurance broker. My father was a sports fan and an accountant. To my knowledge no one in my family was a scientist. I do not know what makes someone a scientist. I have trouble writing the word “scientist” because many scholars do not believe that the research that my colleagues and I do is really science. I do know, however, that I have always been one of those people who wanted to know how things work. Since no one in my family had this same “disability,” I guess this phenotypic trait is not entirely inherited.
