Ian Hodge received his PhD in physical chemistry from Purdue University and studied in the departments of chemistry of the University of Aberdeen in the UK and McGill University in Montreal. He was a member of the research staff at the B F Goodrich Research Laboratories and later joined the Research Laboratory of Eastman Kodak. He then taught introductory physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology before retiring from there. He has almost 50 publications to his name, of which 12 have more than 100 citations, and an h-index of 28.