He was a researcher at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, working for government and private companies.
He worked with semiconductor materials, which was his specialization until his retirement from IBM Watson Research Center in 1990.
[5] The contribution of this technology to LASIK has brought 20/20 vision and freedom from eyeglasses and contact lenses to millions of people.
For this innovation, he was inducted to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (2002) and received the R. W. Wood Prize (2004) from the Optical Society of America (OSA).
[3] In 2013, Blum, Srinivasan, and Wynne were awarded the Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering for this work.