New Mexico
Korean War vet, GI Bill helped finance education through PhD in Astrophysics; taught and researched at universities and observatories, later went into aerospace, finally retired, now building and messing with computers, all of which run Linux. (I don't do Windows)
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Concentrated on the observational side: used clever optical tricks to acquire brand-new basic information, then did easy initial data reduction to a form theoretickers could play with. Thesis data reduction via hand-cranked Marchand. Optics eventually led to aerospace.