Ph.D. from the Columbia University; Department of Zoology, University of California, Davis, 1963 to ?; apparently as a faculty member; research in cell and molecular biology in Arthur Kornberg's lab at Stanford University around 1968, and then at the University of Maryland School of Medicine; wrote two well-received textbooks: Cell and Molecular Biology (1968); DNA and Chromosomes (1970); Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine in 1973; semi finalist in NASA group 4 selection.