I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

The charge asymmetry relates directly to the epsilon parameter which was thereby measured precisely. The MWPC's augmented by micro-electronic amplifiers allowed much larger samples of events to be recorded. His Ph.

He co-discovered the muon neutrino along with Leon Lederman and Melvin Schwartz for which they were given the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics.