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Fifty years takes us back to 1937. I had just graduated from the City College of New York, where I received the Ward Medal of Physics, and I was engaged to Sylvia Harris. We subsequently married in 1940. I also had a job, which was remarkable. It was still the middle of the depression and very few CCNY 1937 graduates were employed. I was to teach at the City College for one year with a salary of $1,600, sixteen contact hours was the standard load at that time for everyone. With this salary and the money I earned teaching summer school, I was able to go to graduate school in the fall of 1938. I went to M.I.T.
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Feshbach, H. (1990). Fifty Years of Nuclear Physics. In: Zichichi, A. (eds) The Superworld II. The Subnuclear Series, vol 25. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7467-1_18
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