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BIOGRAPHY
CHRISTOPHER TRIPP was raised on a small farm in the semi-rural community of Acushnet, Mass., in the 1970s. This is a colorful region whose major claim to fame is being the home of Titleist golfballs, Ocean Spray Cranberries, and the conflagration of King Philip's War in 1675-76. It lies adjacent to the major fishing port of New Bedford, home to a large Portuguese population and setting of the movie Passionada and the opening scenes of Moby Dick. He was born during the turbulent Tet Offensive of 1968.
Being descended from a long line of stern Yankee farmers, he spend his early summers harvesting corn and blueberries. (It takes an awful lot of blueberries to fill up an industrial-sized coffee can at the rate of 5¢ a pint.) When he got fed up with that, he ran off to obtain a BS, MS, and PhD in physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1986-1995. His doctoral thesis was in the field of experimental nuclear physics and involved planning and conducting an experiment on the electrodisintegration of He-3 nuclei at the Bates Linear Accelerator Center run by the U.S. Department of Energy and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also participated in the design of the experimental particle detectors at Thomas Jefferson Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia. Having had enough of the brutal nor'easters that buffet coastal New England, and the rock-hard snow that settles in the Hudson Valley from November to March, he relocated to historic Fredericksburg, Virginia after graduation. Besides being the boyhood home of George Washington, Fredericksburg lay in the crossfire between the Union and Confederacy and thus boasts four major Civil War battlefields. Since 1996, he has lived near Fredericksburg with his wife and four children. He currently lives on a three-acre spread near the site of the Battle of Chancellorsville (where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded), and currently works as a nuclear engineer and freelance writer. CREDENTIALSCHRISTOPHER TRIPP has always had an active interest in writing, having spent much of his free time on the farm writing short stories and dreaming of being a successful writer. Those ambitions were put on the back burner for several years while he was pursuing his degrees and raising a family. Now he has been writing a monthly column on commuting for the Fredericksburg-area paper, the Free Lance Star. He runs into people around the community and continues to be amazed when people confess to reading his column, for which he often receives compliments for the humor he breathes into such a seemingly drab and somber subject. In addition, he has written numerous technical reports and authored or co-authored papers on obscure topics in nuclear engineering as part of his official duties, acquiring an ability to make highly technical information accessible to the general public. He was awarded the Arthur S. Fleming Award for his work in 2005. Besides writing a monthly column and authoring technical reports and papers, he obtained a passion for teaching and tutoring undergraduates in physics while a graduate student. He has recently completed his first book, The Tyranny of Being, which you can purchase on the Store page, and is in the process of drafting other works, including editing a novel.Please see my samples page for a links to my work mentioned above.
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