Canadian physicist. Studied at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1954. His research career brought him to the RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey from 1954 to 1969, with a four-year appointment as Director of the RCA Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan from 1963-1967. In 1969 he became University Professor and Professor of Engineering at Brown University, where he served over the course of his career at the university as Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of the Faculty and Academic Affairs, and ultimately as Provost from 1978-1990. He retired to become Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Physics in 1994.