- Research cardiologist, composer, and author. His musical manuscripts are housed in the Bing collection at USC's Doheny Library.
- In the 1960s, he researched with the physicist George W. Clark at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- He founded the International Society for Heart Resarch in 1976 where he was appointed Life President. He co-founded the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology with Lionel H. Opie.
- He moved his laboratory to the Huntington Medical Research Institutes in Pasadena, California.
- He served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
- In 1969, he studied cardiac metabolism at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
- In 1945, he was an assistant professor of surgery at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland where he studied Cathetherization technique. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2000 from the University where he was characterized as "one of the great cardiologists of our time.".
- He enlisted in the United States Army Medical Corps as a Lieutenant in World War II from 1943 to 1945.
- He is survived by his son, John Bing of Ewing, New Jersey; son, William Bing of Altadena, California; and a daughter, Judy Bing Taskner of Thousand Oaks, California; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
- He immigrated to the United States in 1936 where he accepted a post at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University where he worked with Dr. Allen O. Whipple. He would later marry his daughter, Mary Whippe in 1938.
- He studied perfusion technique at the Rockefeller Institute in New York City.
- He was on a Fellowship at the Carlsberg Biological Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark where he collaborated with Nobel Laureate surgeon, Alexis Carrel.
- He earned his medical degree from the University of Munich in Munich, Germany in 1934. Afterwards, he and his family left Germany. He earned his second medical degree from the University of Bern in Bern, Switzerland in 1935.
- He studied music at the Nuremberg Conservatory in Nuremberg, Germany. He pursued his Pre-medical studies in Frankfurt, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Berlin Germany; and Munich, Germany;.
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