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Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

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Richard P. Feynman reflects on how his father's prediction about his future career as a scientist was made even before his birth.
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Physicist, American
Richard P. Feynman was an American physicist.
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