Early Life and Education
Hagelin was born June 9, 1954, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.. He won a scholarship to Taft School for boys, and while he was a student there he was involved in a motorcycle crash that led to hospitalization and a full body cast. During this time he was introduced to quantum mechanics, and the Transcendental Meditation technique (TM), both of which had a major impact on his life.
Hagelin attended Dartmouth College and after his freshman year, a continued interest in Transcendental Meditation led him to Vittel, France, where he become a qualified teacher of the TM technique. He earned an undergraduate degree in physics with highest honors (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth and also co-authored a published paper. He studied physics at Harvard under Howard Georgi, earning a Master's degree in 1976, and PhD in 1981.
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