Early Life and Education
He was born Gudmundur Bodvarsson in Ljosafoss, Iceland, a town of about 100 people. He was valedictorian of a school built on his grandfather's land. He came to the United States in 1972 to attend Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics in 1974 – graduating Summa Cum Laude. He earned a Master’s degree in civil engineering at North Carolina State University in 1976. Two years after graduating, he moved to Berkeley with Mary Pratt, his wife and he received his doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1981.
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