Commander, U.S. Naval Reserve, Ret.; bachelor of science in physics from the University of Utah, 1953; Ph.D. in high energy nuclear physics from the University of California-Berkeley, 1964; between 1975 and 1976 he was a research scientist at the University of Alaska; then he returned to NASA; hobbies: amateur theatricals, play writing, painting, swimming, skiing; later he was professor of physics at the Utah State University.