David D. Nolte, Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics, Purdue University David D. Nolte is the Edward M. Purcell Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. He received his Baccalaureate from Cornell University, his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley, and he held a post-doc position at AT&T Bell Labs before joining Purdue. He is the author of three trade nonfiction books and actively blogs on issues of science at https: //galileo-unbound.blog. He has published over 200 journal papers and is the technical founder of a start-up company that commercialized the BioCD laser diagnostic platform.