Life
Blum came from an upscale Jewish family that sent him to Phillips Andover prep school and Harvard College. Upon graduation in 1943, he was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy. He served in the Caribbean and South Pacific and off Iwo Jima. He returned to Harvard to write his Ph.D in 1950 under the direction of Frederick Merk. Blum married Pamela Zink in 1946 and had three children. He taught at MIT from 1948 to 1957 before moving to Yale University in 1957. He retired in 1991.
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