Jacques was born in Chernihiv, Ukraine, on 23 November 1922. A year later he and his family immigrated to Constantinople, and the following year they moved to Marseilles, France. After the Nazis occupied the city in 1942, he and his family immigrated to the US and settled in Oakland, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his BS in 1944 and his MS in 1948, both in electrical engineering. Between getting the two degrees, Jacques enlisted in the US Army Signal Corps and served in the Philippines. He earned his PhD from the University of Paris in 1960 for his work on IR emission in germanium.....