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My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.
William Standish Knowles

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession.
William Standish Knowles

At Harvard I majored in chemistry with a strong inclination toward math.
William Standish Knowles

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.
William Standish Knowles

Later in the fifties I got involved in kinetic studies using my long forgotten math background.
William Standish Knowles

I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.
William Standish Knowles


I was born in Taunton, Massachusetts on June 1, 1917, but I actually grew up in nearby New Bedford.
William Standish Knowles

In those days industry would hire any chemist that could breathe.
William Standish Knowles
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