[1] He is remembered for several humoristic and satirical songs on scientific subjects, which he sang to piano accompaniment.
[2] His song Take away your billion dollars (1948)[3] inveighs against Berkelitis, the mega-project mania inspired by the huge growth of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory in the 1930s and later by the Manhattan project that took over physics research after World War II; and he calls for a return to brains-before-dollars science: In The Cyclotronist’s Nightmare (1947) he painted a farcical image of the heroic life in a cyclotron lab.
The not-so-bright Lab Boss walks in one day and tells his graduate students: and then gave his students (pronounced like "stooges") the impossible task to produce the activated iron for the President, overnight — Eighty millicuries by half-past nine!
[5] In 1933, he got a piano diploma from the New York's Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree in physics from Columbia University.
During the 1960s and 1970s he used to have occasional music jam sessions with eminent scientists and Nobel laureates who worked at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.