He also held the rank of professor emeritus at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences.

His research interests have included upper atmospheric physics, glass technology, optical design, instrumentation and space systems.

His dissertation is titled A Spectrographic Study of the Night Sky and Aurora in the Near Infrared.

[2] In 1954, he was awarded the Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.

He was a Fellow and president of the Optical Society of America in 1972,[3] and was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal in 1980.