Gary G. Tibbetts

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Gary Tibbetts got his academic start in physics at Caltech, from which he graduated in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in Physics. He then earned his master's and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois, where he studied electron ejection from metallic surfaces. Beginning in 1967 he spent two years studying frozen noble gases as a guest scientist at the Technical University of Munich.

When he returned to the US, he joined the Physics Department of the General Motors Research Labs in suburban Detroit, Michigan. There, he studied a wide variety of topics, from metallic photoemission to carbon nanotubes and nanofibers to hydrogen storage materials for fuel-cell vehicles. Tibbetts retired from General Motors in 2002 and accepted a position as chief scientist at Applied Sciences, a company that was developing nanofiber technology. He worked there into 2009.

In his retirement, Tibbetts has taken up writing. His first book, 'How the Great Scientists Reasoned: The Scientific Method in Action' (Elsevier, 2012) is his attempt to portray the excitement of scientific discovery.

'Somaxx' is his first effort at fiction. Published in 2015, this novel portrays the future of 2045 as one of abundance and sanity.