 He has been involved in Harvard Project Physics and Project City Science, and he also was an assistant director at the National Science Foundation with President Jimmy Carter, an assistant director of the United States Department of Education and educational director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).Originally from Stockton, California, his first contact with science education was as radar teacher in the Navy during the Second World War in 1945.After the war, he returned to the University of California, Berkeley where he completed his bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1947.