Herbert M. Strong graduated in 1930 with a B.S. from the
University of Toledo. At
Ohio State University he was a graduate student in physics and graduated in 1931 with an M.S. and in 1936 with a Ph.D. His doctoral adviser was Harold Paul Knauss (1900–1963), who was the author of the 1951 textbook
Discovering Physics. Strong was employed in Chicago by the
Kendall Company, where he worked on the physics and chemistry of adhesives. In 1946 he became a research associate at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York, Strong is credited with 23 U.S. patents. In retirement, Strong, with other local physicists, participated in a program sponsored by Schenectady's
Museum of Innovation and Science. The program enabled schoolchildren to participate "in simple demonstrations of gravity, optics, magnetism, conservation of momentum, and other basic physical phenomena." ==Selected publications==