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Dr. Walter Nichols (also known as Marcus Nichols, Brandon Nichols or Jules 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.

Biography[]

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. (TOS novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

In the year 1986, Montgomery Scott, and Leonard McCoy visited the plant - hoping to find material to enclose a tank on board the HMS Bounty. Playing the role of a visiting professor, Scott gave Nichols the formula for transparent aluminum in exchange for the materials needed to enclose a tank. Scott overcame McCoy's objections about tampering with the timeline by informing McCoy that Nichols had invented transparent aluminum. (TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Several years later, Nichols was approached by Shannon O'Donnel to help with a top secret project at Area 51, namely the development of the DY-100 sleeper ship. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)

In 1996 Nichols finally invented transparent aluminum. (TOS comic: "The Needs of the One")

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