 Beginning in 1955 he was a research associate at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York.During the 1960s as an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he was a co-founder and director of Rensselaer's Joint Laboratories for Advanced Materials.His 1966 book "Electron Radiation Damage in Semiconductors and Metals" was highly esteemed.