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Philip Branton credited the Beatles for steering him toward a career in science. While an undergraduate at the University of Toronto in the mid-1960s, he played with his band, the Jazz Couriers, regularly at the Night Owl coffee house in Yorkville, then the focal point of the city’s bohemian arts and culture scene. U of T’s student newspaper, The Varsity, called the Jazz Couriers “the best modern group currently working in Toronto.”“There was a big jazz scene in Toronto at that time, in the coffee houses. There were gigs everywhere. And Phil was really enjoying himself. He thought, ‘You...