Complex sentence: Menaker's mother, herself the daughter of a chemistry researcher, was supportive of his decision to pursue biology further, and after he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955 with a B.A. in biology, Menaker went on to Princeton University.
Split into simpler sentences: Menaker's mother, herself the daughter of a chemistry researcher, was supportive of his decision to pursue biology further. After he graduated from Swarthmore College in 1955 with a B.A. in biology, Menaker went on to Princeton University.