Career
He was born in Brooklyn and lived most of his life in Schenectady, New York and lived on Lowell Road in the General Electric Plot. He helped to develop the Kenotron and Pliotron, twoand three-electrode vacuum tubes, which could be exhausted to an exceedingly high vacuum. He was awarded an honorary degree by Columbia University in 1948.
His papers are housed at the Schaffer Library Special Collections Department of Union College.
