I was born in 1947 in Seattle,Washington,a city surrounded by mountains,forests,and the sea.My mother was the daughter of Swedish immigrants who had come to the US in the late nineteenth century while my father's family had Irish roots on one side and ancestors extending back to the American Revolution on the other.I was the second of three children,all girls.My mother was a homemaker who was exceptionally kind and witty and loved word puzzles.My father was an electrical engineer who,at home,spent much of his time inventing things and building them in our basement.It may be that my parents' interest in puzzles and inventions planted the seeds for my future affinity for science,but I never imagined as a child that I would someday be a scientist.
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