PhD 1942, Advisor: Richard Cox
Now fully retired. Traveling a lot, but doing some writing (most recently published:
The Allied Occupation and Japan's Economic Miracle -- Building the Foundations of Japanese Science and Technology
1945-52 -- The Japan Library -- a book detailing the work of the Scientific and Technical Division of General MacArthur's Headquarters in Occupied Japan; I'm doing a little work on another account which tells of the way occupationaires lived during the Occupation.)
I became an ex-physicist in 1947 when I left the physics department at RPI and began 35 years of work as an administrator in government and in non-profit institutions. All my jobs involved familiarity with science, but not research or teaching after I left RPI: 3 1/2 years in Tokyo in the Scientific and Technical Division; 15 years in Washington at NSF where I last served as Associate Director for Planning; two years at the University of Arizona as a Vice President and Provost; and 12 years as President of The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
I brag to all the physicists I run into these days that I was a graduate student along with the two men (Cliff Shull and Fred Reines) who were/are the only physicists I've heard of who attended a not-very-well-known department for their doctorates and then received Nobel Prizes in successive years. Since I did not do anything noteworthy in physics I can bask in a little reflected glory, particularly because Cliff was an especially good friend in graduate school days, and we've kept in touch fairly closely over the many years since.