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NESACS MEETING 516 with the Nellis and

NESACS Chair, Jerry Jasinski

Jen and I attended the May monthly Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
(NESACS) and met our Cape Cod neighbors, the Nellis. Bill is a physicist who is a NESACS
member and works with us at our STEM Journey
(http://analyzersource.blogspot.com/2016/03/stem-journey-iii-embark-with-us-as-we.html )
event. I finally had the opportunity to talk with Bill for a while and found that we had a lot more in
common than I thought. One of Bills interests is in the gravitational fields of planets. He
mentioned that he had a number of planetary gravitation discussions with physicist Edward
Teller. I joined Geophysical Corporation of America (GCA) after graduate school and worked in
the Applied Physics Laboratory on NASA programs involving the Photochemistry of Planetary
Atmospheres. One of our consultants on this program was Prof. Carl Sagan who was at
Smithsonian at the time. We had Prof. Edward Teller as a seminar speaker at GCA and I had
the opportunity to have coffee with he and Carl Sagan to talk about the NASA Planetary
atmospheres program at GCA. What a small world!
These NESACS monthly meetings are useful for networking and this month we had a great talk
on NASAs mission to Mars by Dr. Luke Robertson, Principal Investigator for R&D. The talk was
held at A123 in Waltham, MA.
Dr. Jack Driscoll, ACSF
Chair NESACS Public Relations
May 12, 2016