Attending electronics lectures at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was involved early development of radar meteorology during this period.

He subsequently completed his doctoral studies under Victor H. Rumsey, receiving a PhD degree in physics in 1953 from Ohio State University.

His other work during this period also featured the areas of radar cross sections, antenna polarization analysis, thermal properties of electromagnetic waves, and underwater acoustics.

[3][4][5][6] The theory was subsequently used in the analysis of various electrically large radiation and scattering problems in engineering, such as indoor and outdoor radio propagation.

[1] In 1995, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "for contributions to the development of the uniform geometric theory of diffraction and the analysis and design of antennas and scatterers.