Cameron was born in
Sylvania, Pennsylvania and graduated from
Oberlin College in 1928 (magna cum laude) and received his PhD from the
University of Minnesota in
physical chemistry in 1932. After working at the
University of Rochester, he joined
Kodak Research Laboratories to work on photographic processing. In 1943 he moved to what is now the
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (at the time US AEC site). Much of his work was classified and not published at the time. Cameron died on September 27, 1981, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He was married to Gray Williams and had three sons, Allan W. Cameron, Douglas Cameron, and Alexander Cameron. He enjoyed sports, especially
squash. ==References==