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Laurence Henry Tribe was born on Oct. 10, 1941 in Shanghai, China to parents George and Polia, members of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora that populated parts of eastern China...
These honors would be impressive on any resumé—but they’re the all the more remarkable considering that Tribe arrived on the shores of California in 1947, not knowing a word of English...
...When Tribe arrived in Cambridge in 1958 at the age of 16, art and mathematics were his passions, and the latter would become his major. He soon became a star debater—as in high school—reaching the quarterfinals of the national debate championships as a sophomore and winning it as a junior...
...While Tribe was brilliant, he was not particularly serious—his summa cum laude thesis in mathematics, for example, was written in two weeks, Alschuler says...
...March 1962—the spring of their senior year—Tribe and Alschuler were scheduled to debate in Charleston, W.Va., but Tribe fell ill and went to the Stillman Infirmary instead. While there that night, he quickly got to know another patient, Carolyn Kreye, a student at the Graduate School of Education. “They basically spent their first year of graduate school falling in love,” Alschuler says of the Tribe and Kreye, who married...