- Born 5 May 1923, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Died 8 August 2017, New York NY
- BS University of Toronto 1944
- MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1946
- PhD February 1951, New York University
- Adviser: Kurt O. Friedrichs
- Dissertation: Contracting spherical shocks treated by a perturbation method
- Primary employer: Courant Institute, New York University