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Article: 'Take the Chaucer'. (Roald Hoffman, refugee, Westinghouse Science Talent Search Winner, Nobel laureate)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 14, 1988
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'TAKE THE CHAUCER'
It was in 1943 or '44. We were living in a schoolhouse attic in Poland, hiding from the Germans. That's when my mother says my interest in science first began. I don't remember it, but she recalls reading me some books about electrons when I was 6 or 7. What I do remember were two books I read after the war when we were in refugee camps in Germany. One was a biography of Marie Curie by her daughter Eve. The other was an inspiring children's book on the life of the great applied chemist George Washington Carver. So the role models for me-a white kid from Poland-were a woman in France and a black man in America.
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