I, Engineer » family https://blog.unreasonable.com engineering is a way of life Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:27:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 All in the Family – Samuel Becker https://blog.unreasonable.com/samuel-becker-profile/ https://blog.unreasonable.com/samuel-becker-profile/#comments Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:11:21 +0000 http://blog.unreasonable.com/?p=557 Read more]]>
In telling you about the many engineers and scientists in my family, my father’s father, Samuel Lubkin, would be an obvious person to start with. But I think that one who was neither is a better choice.

My mother’s father, Samuel Becker, had wanted to be an engineer. He had to quit school early to help support the family. Still, he always loved gadgets and science.

My uncle and my mother discovered chemistry in the darkroom of Sam’s portrait studio. He grew up to become a chemical engineer. His kid sister went into nuclear physics before taking a job at Physics Today, where she reported on physics for 45 years.

I, too, learned to develop pictures. And watched Star Trek with him, which we both loved.

I’m proud to be in Sam Lubkin’s profession. But it was Sam Becker who planted the seed.

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