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Irish/German family, father's ophthalmic training and practice; education, Harvard, and Northwestern University Medical School; doctorate in physiology, 1947, University of Iowa Medical School; private practice, Bethlehem, PA; Korean War navy flight surgeon;
blackout research, Johnsville Naval Testing Center; research associate in ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas Jefferson University Medical School Department of Ophthalmology: chair, 1962-1981, key faculty, staff, resident training program; affiliation of Wills Eye Hospital and Jefferson: reorganization, new hospital; Ophthalmic Research: USA, 1965; creation of National Eye Institute, 1968; medical organizations and committee memberships; editorship, Clinical Ophthalmology; committees and honors.