Education and Professional Experience
1976-1980
Undergraduate student, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY); United Technologies academic scholarship; research assistant in radio astronomy and theoretical astrophysics; member Society of Physics Students and American Astronomical Society; volunteer physics tutor. Graduated magna cum laude, B.S. in Physics, minors in Mathematics and Astronomy.
1980-1981
Graduate student, Dept. Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley, under a graduate fellowship; teaching assistant.
1981-1987
Research Scientist, University of California at Berkeley: Space Sciences Laboratory, Physics Department and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; invented several satellite and laboratory optical systems, including the grazing incidence spectrometers flown aboard the Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) and the XMM-Newton soft x-ray observatory.
1987- present
Founder, owner and sole operator of Hettrick Scientific. Designed and manufactured grazing incidence spectrometers and optics sold to universities, national laboratories and companies worldwide for physics research. Twice (1988, 1992) received the “R&D 100 award” for developing one of the 100 “most significant technical products” of the year.
1996
Doctoral thesis, “Optical Design and Experimental Development of Grazing Incidence Fixed Slit Spectrometers for High Resolution Plasma Diagnostics”, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Department of Fusion Science, Gifu, Japan, 1996.