Background
Terhune, Nelson Anthony was born on August 2, 1913 in Park Ridge, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Nelson and Etta Lilian (Tice) Terhune.
Terhune, Nelson Anthony was born on August 2, 1913 in Park Ridge, New Jersey, United States. Son of John Nelson and Etta Lilian (Tice) Terhune.
Bachelor in Physics and Mathematics, New York University, 1940. Postgrad in Physics, New York University, 1940.
Development engineer Wheelock Signal (former Signal Engineering and Manufacturing Company), New York City, 1940—1941, chief development engineer, 1946—1948. Electronics engineer Components and Materials Board, Squier Signal Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, 1948—1949, head materials test group, 1949—1950, head test research & standardization unit performance test section, 1950—1952, physicist materials branch, 1952—1954. Chief dielectrics section, materials branch Components and Materials Division, Signal Corps Research & Engineering Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, 1954—1960.
Physical science administrator, staff, office director research Headquarters Signal Corps, 1960—1962. Chief electronics branch Limited War Laboratory, Army Office Research and Development, Aberdeen, Maryland, 1962—1964, chief applied physics branch, 1964—1966, chief advanced concepts branch, 1966—1968. Consultant in field, since 1968.
Operator, manager private airport Aberdeen. Major signal corps United States Army, 1941-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Member of American Physical Society.
Married Jane Marie Johnson, September 3, 1944 (divorced 1983). 1 child Sharon Nan.