An autobiographical essay entitled: My 50 Years as a Physicist, which documents his undergraduate education at the University of Akron under Fred Householder; his graduate education at Lehigh University (M.S.) and the University of Wisconsin (Ph.D.) under Thomas C. Mendenhall and John Van Vleck, with classmates Emanuel R. Piore, Chauncey G. Suits, and Leland J. Haworth; his dissertation on low voltage electron diffraction; his employment as an x-ray specialist responsible for industrial radiography and x-ray and electron diffraction at General Motors Research Laboratories under Charles F. Kettering, and his work during the Second World War there; his work in ultrasonic inspection devices and development of a DC fluorescent aircraft-interior lighting system for Lockheed Aircraft Corporation; his brief employment with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); his 18-year employment with Western Precipitation Corporation as director of research, developing precipitators, filters, cyclonic collectors, and scrubbers; his work at National Engineering Science Company and JPL on nuclear missiles and the Mariner spacecraft; and his current work as a consultant. Respondents were asked to discuss their choice of physics as a profession and the course of their careers, their satisfactions and disappointments, the changes they saw in working and teaching conditions in the field, and relations within the community and with the society at large.