[1] After attending the Bronx High School of Science, Passman matriculated at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, where he graduated with B.S.
[3] Passman was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1966 at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.)
[2] He has given over 70 invited addresses, not only in North America but also in Europe, Brazil, Israel, and Turkey.
[4] His research interests include finite and infinite groups, noncommutative ring theory, group rings and enveloping algebras of Lie algebras.
They have two children, Barbara and Jonathan, and five grandchildren, Samuel, Rebecca, Abraham, Jordan and Eve.