Background
Holmes, Richard Brooks was born on January 7, 1959 in Milwaukee. Son of Emerson Brooks Holmes and Nancy Anne Schaffter.
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Richard Brooks Holmes
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Richard Brooks Holmes, American Mathematical physicist. Achievements include patents for means for photonic communication, computation, and distortion compensation; discovery of spin-two phonons.
M C. Stanford fellow Stanford University, 1982; fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990; recipient Presidential Medal of Merit, 1992.
Education
Bachelor of Science, California Institute Technology, 1981; Master of Science, Stanford (California) U., 1983.
Career
Senior system analyst, Comptek Research, Vallejo, California, 1982-1983; staff scientist, Western Research, Arlington, Virginia, 1983-1985; senior scientist, Alloy Valves and Control Everett (Massachusetts) Research Laboratory, 1985-1988; principal research scientist, North East Research Associations, Woburn, Massachusetts, 1988-1990; senior member technical staff, Rocketdyne division Rockwell International, Canoga Park, California, 1990-1995; senior staff scientist, Lockheed Martin Research laboratories, Palo Alto, California, 1995-1998; president, Nutronics, Inc., Carson City, Nevada, since 1998. Consultant North East Research Associations, 1990.
Achievements
Membership
Member Northern California Scholarship Founds., Oakland, 1977. Member Wilderness Society, Washington, 1989. Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society for Optical Engineering (conference organizer since 1995), American Physical Society, Optical Society.Am.
Connections
Married Sandra Lynn Wong, June 27, 1998.
