Don Booth
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Don Booth
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I was a Physics/Math double major in undergraduate school (USF/Tampa), and earned my MS/Ph.D in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona/Tucson. I have always worked in industry, as both an Optical Thin Film Coating engineer (for 10+ years) and a machine control programmer for vacuum chamber system (for 25+ years). I spent many years alternating between the two fields (conflict of desire and interest), and now do programming for machine control about half time and residential computer IT support the other 10 - 30 hours.
I was initiated into Sigma Pi Sigma in 1973, and have supported the program since then with contributions to annual "membership" and a contribution to my original Sigma Pi Sigma chapter at the University of South Florida. I have participated in the annual "Adopt-A-Physicist" program for the last two years, and enjoyed it very much.