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 Don
Wilson is a fourth generation Californian raised on
the world's largest peach ranch in Tudor (pop. 35),
which is just south of Yuba City (named "the worst
place to live in the US.") As a teenager he picked
peaches and prunes with the braceros and later worked
in packing houses and canneries, a lesson arranged by
his father to demonstrate both what work was like as
well as the advantage of an education. After earning
an advanced degree in chemical engineering from UC of
Davis, he worked for FMC in San Jose for 15 years as
a major innovator in the company's research division.
While at FMC Don was also a consultant to many of its
equipment manufacturing, mining and chemical divisions.
That gave him a broad background with which to launch
his own independent consulting business. He has worked
internationally for over 20 as a "technical expert"
and has equipment designs being used worldwide. As an
eighth grader he gave his first lecture, with homemade
props, about the solar system to a community gathering
at the country school auditorium. His enthusiasm for
astronomy has persisted to date by taking astronomy
classes and doing volunteer work for the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific.
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