Background
Nelms was born in 1929 in Waycross, Georgia.
Nelms was born in 1929 in Waycross, Georgia.
Her research, which involved the study of the persistence of nuclear radioactivity, was cited in reports on nuclear fallout and human health. She worked as a nuclear physicist for National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s. She collaborated in her nuclear research with Ugo Fano, an Italian-born academician who joined the National Bureau of Standards as the bureau"s first theoretical physicist after a stint at Aberdeen Proving Grounds.
She also collaborated with J West Cooper, a senior research fellow with the National Bureau of Standards.
