Born in Vermont in 1932 and educated in both Catholic and public schools. Bob graduated from high school in 1950 and joined the US Air Force. He married Myrtle Singletary while stationed at MacDill Air Force base in Tampa Florida. Leaving the Air Force in 1957 and moving his family to Florida, he attended the University of Tampa and received a BS degree in Physics. He started his post-college career in 1965 at the Nevada Test Site with Edgerton, Germeshausen and Grier, (EG&G) and transferred to the Livermore Lab from 1968 to 1993. He and Myrt live in Las Vegas Nevada.