Joe was born in New York, NY on August 18, 1917. Joe was a long-time resident of San Diego and recently moved to Carlton Plaza in San Jose. Joe and his late wife, Leah, raised three children, Sonia, Mark and Carla, in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, then settled in Florida (North Bay Village). Joe and Leah were both active stage performers, appearing in many productions of The Main-Line Players and Wayne Footlighters in Pennsylvania, all while both were pursuing careers in the medical field at Smith Kline & French Labs in Philadelphia. Joe started and led the Medical Instrumentation Division at SKF, where he developed the first Fetoscope, a hand-held doppler-ultrasound imaging device. Taking an early retirement, Joe later lent funding to a startup that became International Medcom, where he was Chairman of the Board and helped design hand-held radiation detectors that have become essential to monitoring radiation emitted by the Three-Mile Island and Fukishima sites. A tribute to Joe's work may be seen at http://geigercounter.com/acknowledging-hero-nuclear-age/