… in one generation: UD calls that impressive. Hell, inspiring. The university where UD teaches, George Washington University, has just brought this guy onto its faculty. His father was a shepherd.
I also find the guy disarmingly honest. From his Nobel prize autobiography page:
My brothers John Abderhaman and Turhon Allen were born in 1938 and 1944. We were raised in a four room apartment behind my parents’ restaurant in Whiting, Indiana. This small apartment undoubtedly influenced my desire for large expensive homes.