Charles Olk:
CLASS OF 1970
Central High SchoolClass of 1970
Grand rapids, MI
Charles's Story
I am retired now an have a small farm called Sunset Farm, named for the awesome sunsets we see since we are surrounded by flat farm land. I have 4 wonderful children three sons and a daughter. My ex and I were together for 28 years. Having children was the best thing I have ever done.
Career wise I was a Sr. Staff Scientist at General Motors Research Labs for 25 years. I headed several advanced research projects from using combinatorial materials discovery to search for a wide variety of optimal materials for such things as hydrogen storage to nanoclusters for electronic applications, to investigations of atomic s...Expand for more
cale one and two dimensional nanostructures using Scanning Tunneling and Atomic Force Microscopy. I was fortunate enough to have had large budgets and the imagination to dream up these projects. The training I received didn't hurt, B.S. in Physics from Grand Valley University, MSc. in Physics from the University of Kentucky, and a Ph.D in Materials Science from the University of Michigan,
I now spend a lot of time reading, cooking and baking, playing with the dogs, watching movies, fun nights out and just sitting in front of the fire.Of course there is a lot of working on the farm and house which is 163 years old.
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