Childhood, family; father's career and fame; early education in Massachusetts and Pittsburgh, PA; early interest in chemistry and medicine; undergraduate at Mt. Holyoke (premed and chemistry). Graduate school University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. in Chemistry (promethium isotopes); switch to nuclear physics; postdoctoral studies with Luis Alvarez. Research Associate at Columbia University 1954-1959 (Professor Chien-Shiung Wu). Brandeis University, 1959-1963, joining a high energy group involved with MIT; MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science from 1963 (Irwin Press); bubble chamber workA rgonne National Lab, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; photoproduction and counter experiments. Professor of Physics 1972, studies in pi-plus p interactions at 147 GeV. Commitment to feminism leads to extensive involvement in women's issuese specially women in science; comments on marriage and children; discussion of career (for women). Organizational affiliations and activities on a wide variety of issues, discussion of the ISIS bubble chamber experiment. Feelings on life and career, future, failure of expectations.