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For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.

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Sidney Altman
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: May 7
Academic
Biochemist
Biologist
Biophysicist
Chemist
Molecular Biologist
Physicist
University Teacher
Montreal
Quebec
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Canada
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Relatives

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I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.
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About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
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Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
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I should mention that while I was growing up, Einstein was presented as a worthy role model for a young boy who was good at his studies.
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Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
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Indeed, we are privileged to have been afforded the opportunity to study Nature and to follow our own thoughts and inspirations in a time of relative tranquillity and in a land with a generous and forward-looking government.
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