1937
Born to Karlis Sovers and Olga (Kaneps) Sovers in Riga, Latvia.
1950
Immigrated to the United States; attends New York City high schools from 1952 through 1954.
1958
Earns a Bachelor of Science in physics and chemistry, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College.
1958
Is a summer intern at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
1958
Starts graduate studies at Princeton University where he was supported by National Science Foundation fellowships.
1959
Marries Zinta Armande Aisters, whom he met at Brooklyn College in 1957. She earns a Bachelor of Arts in 1959.
1961
Writes the thesis “d-Hybridization in Pi Bonds.”
1962
Earns a Doctor in Philosophy in physics and physical chemistry from Princeton University.
1962
Completes a postdoctoral fellowship with the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford, England.
1962
Completes postdoctoral research at Columbia University through 1964.
1964
Is a technical staff member of GTE Laboratories in Bayside, NY, through 1972.
1972
Is a technical staff member of the development division of Sony Corporation in Tokyo, Japan, through 1978.
1979
Is a technical staff member of Advanced VLBI Systems for NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA through 2015.
1991
Receives the NASA Certificate of Recognition and again in 1993.
1992
Receives the NASA Group Achievement Award.
1996
Co-authors a VLBI review paper in Reviews of Modern Physics.
1998
Works as a part-time contractor for NASA Jet Propulsion Lab while living in Florence, OR.
2000
Co-authors “Astrometry of Fundamental Catalogues” via Springer Publishers, Germany.
2015
Retires from his profession.