Ken Nordtvedt

Dr. Ken Nordtvedt is a professor emeritus in the Physics Department at Montana State University and a senior researcher specializing in relativistic theories of gravity. A board member & scientific advisor in overseeing the joint NASA-ESA Space Test of Equivalence Principle mission & was a member of the National Science Board during a tenure when he was one of only two academic scientists serving the Board appointed by then President Ronald Reagan. He served three terms in state legislature over a six year period in the early eighties following a long support from NASA during the 1970s for his research. His research was the subject of the December, 9 1991 "Wall Street Journal" article featured on the front page. [ [http://calspace.ucsd.edu/spacegrant/Five_Years/SGrsrch%7Cpg14.html The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program] ]

He has also done his own research into genetic haplogroups, particularly the Y DNA group I1 to which he belongs, and advises on haplotypes for a population genetics group at FTDNA (Family Tree DNA)

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Associated eponyms

*Nordtvedt effect