His mother obtained a PhD in Psychology from McGill University in 1959[REF] which she completed in only 18 months, and was mentored by Donald O. Hebb [REF].
Immediately after graduation he moved to the U.S.A., where he obtained his PhD degree in Physics from Ohio University in 1976 for research into the ferroelectric phase transition of Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate (KDP)[REF] supervised by Tomoyasu Tanaka [REF].