Education
- Attended primary and secondary schools in Faison, North Carolina
- 1952: Received a bachelor of science degree in physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 1963: Received a doctorate in medicine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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