 Alvin Martin Weinberg was born April 20 , 1915 in Chicago , Illinois , the son of Jacob Weinberg and Emma Levinson Weinberg , two Russian Jewish emigrants who met in 1905 on board the boat carrying them to the United States . He had an older sister , Fay , who was born on November 30 , 1910 . She later became a sociology professor at the University of the Pacific . He attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Chicago . 
