 He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering in 1948 at Mississippi State University.Afterwards, he started as a graduate student in the Acoustics Laboratory at MIT where he got his master's degree in 1950 and, after a two-year break teaching at Mississippi State, received his Ph.D. in 1955.He was chosen as the 2005 recipient of the Research and Development Council of New Jersey's Science/Technology Medal.