He studied at the Technical University of Budapest (1943-1948), taking courses with Charles Jordan and received an M.S.
From 1945-48 he was a student assistant to Professor Zoltán Bay and participated in his famous experiment of receiving microwave echoes from the Moon (1946).
In 1957 he received the Academic Doctor's Degree in Mathematics for his thesis entitled "Stochastic processes arising in the theory of particle counters" (1957).
[3] He also held visiting appointments at Bell Labs and IBM Research, had sabbaticals at Stanford University (1966).
He had two daughters, contemporary figurative realist artist, Judy Takács and Susan, a legal assistant.