Kenneth Case

Ken was accepted for undergraduate studies at Harvard and matriculated in 1941, exempted from the World War II draft by extreme nearsightedness.

[1] After the war, back at Harvard, Case completed his undergraduate degree and subsequently began graduate work under Julian Schwinger, earning his Ph.D. in 1948.

Other JASON Navy members included Walter Munk, Edward Frieman, William Nierenberg, and Curtis Callan.

[3][4] Case's changed academic affiliations in 1969, when he moved to Rockefeller University in an arrangement that also made him a frequent presence in Princeton at IAS.

[1] He retired from Rockefeller in 1988 and, with his wife Pat, moved to La Jolla, California, where he held an adjunct faculty position at UCSD until his death in 2006 at age 82.