Roy Andersen was electronics officer aboard the U.S.S. Mannert L. Abele as a member of its fighter direction team from January until 12 April 1945 when the Abele was sunk by kamikaze aircraft.

Previously, the Navy had sent him for fourteen months of training in electronics and radar at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, following which he studied briefly at the Bell Telephone Laboratories and Navy installations. On his return from the Western Pacific he was stationed at the Naval Repair Base in San Diego as Officer-in-Charge of the Naval Training School (Electronics).

After thirty-nine months of active duty, he returned to graduate school and in 1948 was awarded an A.M. from Dartmouth and in 1951 the Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University. He has held teaching and research appointments at Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford, Maryland, Berkeley and the Woods Hole (MA) Oceanographic Institute. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Physics at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he had chaired the Department of Physics and served as Dean of the Graduate School.

In 1973 he was named NATO Senior Fellow in Science at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and author of twenty-five scientific papers and a book chapter.

Biographical details may be found in Who’s Who in America.