Rocky Kolb, “A Universe of Particles: Cosmological Reflections” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in the History of Science
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Did Other Interests Come From?
When he was 12 years old, his father died in the 19 18 fluw epidemic. His mother told him, ok, now you have to support the family with four siblingsnd. So he had to drop out of school and later went and completed it at nit - through high school and business school at night. He didn't have much of a formal education there. You know, the house was full of books and so he would read shakespeare. And he maintained these interests, and presumably other things.
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