He began his university studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1943, at the age of 16.
He chose to pause his studies and enlist in the United States Navy on his 17th birthday where he served from 1944 to 1946.
He and Manley received the David Sarnoff Award for "their work on the properties of nonlinear devices resulting in the well-known Manley–Rowe Relations."
In 1977[2][3] Following his retirement from Bell Labs, he joined Stevens Institute of Technology as a professor of electrical engineering.
[4] The most widely cited of his over 50 articles, with 583 citations in Google Scholar, is "Some general properties of nonlinear elements-Part I.