Education
He received his Bachelor (1937), Master of Arts (1955), and Doctor of Science (1956) degrees from Trinity College, Oxford University. His Master of Arts and Doctor of Science were in the area of chemical kinetics under Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 1940 from Princeton University, with a thesis entitled: The Kinetics of Reactions in Condensed and Heterogeneous Systems, under Henry Eyring.
He was a National Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow (1940–1942).