[2] He also helped with the Underground Railroad and successfully urged the Buchanan Administration not to go to war with the Mormons in Salt Lake City.
Kane was an undergraduate at Princeton University, and interrupted his education to serve in the army during World War II.
Kane left General Electric in 1959 to join Hughes Aircraft in California and then moved to the Theoretical Physics Department in Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey in 1961.
He continued his semiconductor research at Bell Labs, at the interface between experimental and theoretical physics, until AT&T was broken up.
He spent most of the rest of his life working in childcare for infants, toddlers and young children including his grandchildren and church group.
They note that Kane's quasi-degenerate perturbation theory approach worked well for semiconductors with small band gaps.
The theoretical literature describing the electronics and optical responses of these semiconductors all rely heavily on this model, as does the very active field of quantum phenomena in size-limited crystalline structures.