Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.