Includes discussion of: family and birthplace; education and employment including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Naval Research Laboratory, Lockheed Missiles and Space Company; influences on career choices (introduction as a youth to George Washington Carver by father); description of experiences as an educator; researech activities in thermodynamics, solid state physics, low temperature physics, energy conversion, magnetism, oceanographic instrumentation, etc; description of published articles; society's responsibility for scientists; necesssity to encourage minorities to pursue physics; the contribution of physics to mankind.