Kalmus received a bachelor's degree from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904; the "Tech" in
Technicolor is partly a tribute to that school. He earned his doctorate at the
University of Zurich and was a research associate at MIT from 1908 to 1910 before teaching physics, electrochemistry and metallurgy at
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada. He was also a director of research for the Canadian government's electro-chemical laboratory. He then married Eleanore King in 1949. however it was "accepted on his behalf by
Mr. Wadsworth Pohl, his associate." He was made an honorary life member of the SMPTE. He also received an award from the US
Office of Scientific Research and Development. He was a director at
Stanford Research Institute. He had two daughters. Kalmus' god-daughter (and later step-daughter),
Cammie King, played the part of Bonnie Blue Butler in the film
Gone With the Wind (1939). The autobiography of Herbert Kalmus,
Mr. Technicolor (), was published in 1993. ==Legacy==