Symon graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard in 1942 with a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics.
With four colleagues from around the country, he published "Innovation Was Not Enough -- A History of the Midwestern Universities Research Association", in 2010.
He was an internationally recognized figure in plasma physics and particle accelerator design.
He is known for the development of the FFAG accelerator concept in parallel to Tihiro Ohkawa and Andrei Kolomensky.
[2] He worked for the Midwestern Universities Research Association[3] with Donald Kerst[4] and received the APS Robert R. Wilson Prize in 2005.