- Born 9 June 1913, Belfast, Ireland
- Died 8 August 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- BA University of British Columbia 1934
- MA University of British Columbia 1937
- PhD June 1941, University of Toronto
- Adviser: Samuel Beatty
- Dissertation: Theory of algebraic functions based on the use of cycles
- Primary employer: Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada (1944–1949)