Background
Boody, Frederick Parker was born on February 23, 1949 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Son of Frederick Parker and Ruth (Rich) Boody.
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Boody, Frederick Parker was born on February 23, 1949 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Son of Frederick Parker and Ruth (Rich) Boody.
Bachelor of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1971; Master of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Missouri, 1991.
Engineer, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, 1972-1974;
senior development engineer, Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, Connecticut, 1974-1976;
research assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1976-1980;
diagnostic physicist, Princeton (New Jersey) Plasma Physics Laboratory, 1980-1986;
research scientist, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1986-1991;
president, Ion Light Corporation (formerly Nuclear-Pumped Laser Corporation), Huntsville, Alabama, since 1981. Program committee Conference on Physics of Nuclear-Pumped Lasers, Obninsk, Russia, 1991, 92. First western visitor Nuclear Weapons Insts, Arzamas-16and Chelyabinsk-70, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1991.
Visiting professor Fachhochschule Regensburg, Germany, 1993.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Nuclear Society, American Physical Society, Optical Society American, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.