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In high school I was perhaps the best in the class. But at MIT I learned that there are many other bright people. Also there was one subject—I think it was descriptive geometry—which I couldn’t cope with, and I think it was charity that I received a passing grade. Perhaps this ties in with the fact that as a boy I was never interested in machines, or in dismantling and reassembling a mechanical object, such as a watch or a car. In this respect I was an exception to most successful physicists and chemists.
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Mulliken, R.S., Ransil, B.J. (1989). MIT: Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In: Ransil, B.J. (eds) Life of a Scientist. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61320-3_3
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