 Ironically , Reines excelled in literary and history courses , but received average or low marks in science and math in his freshman year of high school , though he improved in those areas by his junior and senior years through the encouragement of a teacher who gave him a key to the school laboratory . This cultivated a love of science by his senior year . In response to a question seniors were asked about what they wanted to do for a yearbook quote , he responded : " To be a physicist extraordinaire . " 
 Ironically , Reines excelled in literary and history courses , but received average or low marks in science and math in his freshman year of high school , though he improved in those areas by his junior and senior years through the encouragement of a teacher <a href='null_relcl' title='1'><mark>who</mark></a>gave him a key to the school laboratory . This cultivated a love of science by his senior year . In response to a question seniors <a href='uninflect' title='2'><mark>were</mark></a> asked about what they wanted to do for a yearbook quote , he responded : " To be a physicist extraordinaire . " 
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