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Nelson, Donald F.

A research physicist at Bell Labs for twenty-eight years, Don Nelson has had a distinguished scientific career that has included basic research, teaching at Michigan, Southern Cal, Princeton, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and the publication of Electric, Optic, and Acoustic Interactions in Dielectrics. A PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, he switched gears when he retired in 2000 and began to focus primarily on history and genealogy. Exploring over a thousand family letters and extensive archival material, Don has recreated the fascinating 19th-century life of his grandfather, Andrew Atchison, the subject of this book. A member of the American Antiquarian Society, Don lives in Worcester, Massachusetts and Martha's Vineyard with Margaret (Fuerstenau) Nelson, his wife of fifty-three years. They have two daughters and five grandsons.

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To The Stars Over Rough Roads: The Life of Andrew Atchison, Teacher and Missionary

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MISSIONARY, EDUCATOR, ENTREPRENEUR, AND RESTLESS PROGRESSIVE, Andrew Atchison led a peripatetic 19th century life committed to the welfare of others—recently freed slaves, Indians on reservations, immigrant Chinese building the Panama Canal—in locales ranging from Kansas to New Mexico, Texas to Missouri, Louisiana to Panama. Orphaned at twelve in Ohio, Atchison left a mark that stretched West—To the Stars as told by Don Nelson in this engaging account of the distinctively American life of his maternal grandfather.

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