Topics discussed include: family background and childhood; undergraduate studies at Case Institute of Technology; graduate work in nuclear physics at University of Illinois; work on wartime microwave electronics at corporate laboratories in Pittsburgh; collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts Insitute of Technology's radiation laboratory on magnetrons and electron tubes; teaching at Westinghouse Research Laboratories; development of x-ray image amplifier; work as manager of electronic projects at Westinghouse Research Laboratories; interest in acoustics.