Ann T. Nelms
African American nuclear physicist
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Life and career
Nelms was born in 1929 in Waycross, Georgia.
She worked as a nuclear physicist for National Bureau of Standards in the 1950s. She collaborated in her nuclear research with Ugo Fano, an Italian-born academician who joined the National Bureau of Standards as the bureau's first theoretical physicist after a stint at Aberdeen Proving Grounds. She also collaborated with J W Cooper, a senior research fellow with the National Bureau of Standards.
As of January 1954, she lived in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and one-year-old child.
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