1928
Born in Steubenville, Ohio to Arthur Raymond and Margaret June Coates.
1950
Receives a Bachelor of Science in chemistry.
1950
Becomes a practice engineer for Wheeling Steel Corporation in Steubenville, Ohio.
1951
Becomes a research chemist at the Terminal Ballistics Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.
1951
Joins the U.S. Army.
1955
Becomes chief of the ignition section at the Terminal Ballistics Laboratory.
1957
Marries Marie Maslin Silver.
1960
Becomes chief of the radiation damage section at the Terminal Ballistics Laboratory.
1961
Receives a Master of Science in chemistry from the University of Delaware.
1970
Becomes chief of the methodology section at the Terminal Ballistics Laboratory.
1975
Becomes a technical assistant to the chief of the Terminal Ballistics Laboratory.
1978
Becomes special assistant to the director of the U.S. Army Ballistics Research Laboratory.
1979
Becomes president of Silver Farms, Inc. in Aberdeen, Maryland.
1994
Joins the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce.
2002
Joins the board of directors of the Historical Society of Hartford County in Maryland.