Robert N. Nelson ’63

Robert N. Nelson ’63, of Bowie, Md.; Apr. 10. After obtaining a doctoral degree from MIT, he began teaching at Georgia Southern University. He spent many sabbaticals and summers conducting research and designing equipment for experiments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. He retired and moved to Bowie, where he continued to be involved in research regarding cosmic dust. He was a member of many chemical professional societies and attended both Oseh Shalom Synagogue and Bet Aviv. He enjoyed genealogy, traveling, and editing chemistry textbooks. He is survived by his wife, Mary; two sons; three grandchildren; a sister; and his former wife, Anne Milbouer.