Autobiographical essay entitled, How I chose physics as a profession, which includes reminiscences about his early education and research projects; his employment at Westinghouse Corporation in Pittsburgh, PA; graduate education at Duke University under Walter M. Nielsen on cosmic ray showers; his work at the University of Chicago in the Health Physics department and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (then Clinton Laboratory) on radioactive waste disposal, distribution of radioactivity through food chains, and calculations of maximum permissible exposures; education for industry and government employees working with radioactive materials at Vanderbilt University and the University of Tennessee; his professorship at the School of Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology; his busy "retirement"; and reflections on his career. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers , their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.