Born March 23, 1918, in San Francisco, California

Married, one daughter

EDUCATION

A.B., Physics-Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 1940

Ph.D., Physiological Optics, University of California, Berkeley, 1950

Senior Post-Doctoral Year with Professor Ragnar Granit, Nobel Laureate and Director of the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 1957

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Instructor of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 1950-51

Assistant Professor of Physiological Optics and Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 1951-56

Research Associate in Surgery (Ophthalmology), Stanford University Medical School, 1955-59

Associate Professor of Physiological Optics and Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 1956-62

Professor of Physiological Optics and Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 1962 to 1988 (Physiological Optics changed by the Academic Senate to Vision Science, 1992)

Professor Emeritus, 1988

SPECIAL RESEARCH AWARDS

Senior Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Science Foundation at the Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 1957

Guggenheim Fellowship in Neuroscience, Madrid, Spain, 1963

Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1967-68

Exchange Professorship, U.S. Academy of Science, U.S.S.R. Academy of Science, 1972

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

Fellow, Optical Society of America

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS

Research Associate in Neuroscience, Mount Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, 1969 to 1995

SERVICE TO THE GOVERNMENT and UNIVERSITY

National Academy of Science -- National Research Council Committee on Vision, 1951. Executive Council 1965-1968

Communications Officer, Lt. Col., active duty, U.S. Air Force, 1941-46

Research and Development Officer, Lt. Col., active duty, Vision Section, Physiology Branch, Aero-Medical Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1951-53

Assignment of three tonometer patents to the University of California, 1961 (U.S. Patent Numbers 3049001, 3150520, 3150521)

Communications Officer, Lt. Col., active duty, U.S. Air Force, 1941-46

Research and Development Officer, Lt. Col., active duty, Vision Section, Physiology Branch, Aero-Medical Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1951-530

NOTE

Over a career of research and teaching at the University of California, Berkeley of approximately 40 years, I taught physiological optics, geometrical optics and, anatomy and physiology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.