After attending UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich, Bernard worked as an engineer at several companies and organizations, including Texas Instruments and Litton Industries, receiving numerous patents in electronics.

Bernhard spent his teenage years in Pasadena, where his father was a professor at the California Institute of Technology, and in Berkeley.

Having shared his love of music with his grandson, he bestowed upon Bernhard his violin in addition to a modest sum of money.

[citation needed] In 1954, Bernhard married Doris Aude Ascher (born 1930), with whom he had five children:[5] Einstein excelled only in German at the University of California at Berkeley.

In 1974, Bernard moved back to Switzerland and worked in laser technology at the Swiss Army Research Lab in Thun, obtaining a further US patent.