I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income.

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.