Background
Nelson, Donald Frederick was born on July 4, 1930 in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Son of Paul Vine and Florence Dorothea (Atchison) Nelson.
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Donald Frederick Nelson, American Physics educator, researcher. Achievements include patents in end pumped optical maser; developmentof first continuously operating ruby laser, first optical modulator in optical waveguide; prediction and measurement of lower symmetry ofelasto-optic tensor; prediction of lower symmetry of stiffness tensor.
Education
Bachelor of Science, University of Michigan, 1952; Master of Science, University of Michigan, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, 1958.
Career
Postdoctoral fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1958-1959; member technical staff, Bell Telephone laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1959-1967; professor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 1967-1968; member technical staff, American Telephone & Telegraph Company Bell laboratories, Murray Hill, 1968-1987; professor, Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute, since 1987. Visiting lecturer Princeton (New Jersey) U., 1976.
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Membership
Member Governor's Science Advisory Committee, Trenton, New Jersey, 1982-1987, New Jersey Noise Control Council, Trenton, 1983-1987. Councilman Common Council, Summit, New Jersey, 1981-1984. Fellow American Physical Society.
Member Optical Society American, Acoustical Society American.
Connections
Married Margaret Ellen Fuerstenau, December 18, 1954. Children: Elizabeth Ellen, Julia Karen Nelson-Gal.
