Thomas J. Nugent, Jr. is an engineer and current President of LaserMotive, a laser power beaming and research company.[1]
He previously worked as a project scientist at Intellectual Ventures Labs, working on a variety of projects including the “Photonic Fence,” a system for shooting down mosquitoes via laser to help prevent the spread of malaria .[2][3]
Nugent holds a B.S. in Physics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"A Performance Evaluation of the Ion Compressed Antiproton-Catalyzed Nuclear (ICAN) Propulsion System", Pasadena, CA, USA: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, July 1991, JPL D-8572