Walter Nichols

Doctor Marcus Walter "Mark" Nichols was a male human materials science reseacher in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was the inventor (on Earth) of transparent aluminum and a number of other innovations.

Nichols left academia in the early 1980s for the private-sector developer Plexicorp in San Francisco, but grew dissatisfied with the management whom he felt did not use him to the best of his abilities (for instance, using a man with his research qualifications as a plant manager of Plexicorp's Burlingame Industrial Park facility). (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home novelization).


 * to be added Nicholcorp, Birdseye cryosats, and recruitment by Shannon O'Donnell (Khan, vol. 2)


 * to be added Nicholcorp Asteroid (The Sundered)