Born in 1931 in Pontiac, MI, in 1953 received his PhD fron U. of Wisconsin, worked in research at General Motors, E I Dupont, Sterling Drug Corp; was Associate Prof. at Illinois Wesleyan U., Directed Medicinal Chem. and Developmental Research at Sterling Winthrop Research Instittute, had a chemical reagent that he developed named after him and retired in 1987 to continue his study of surface hydration structuring.