Alan Robert Pearlman (ARP)

ARP (his childhood nickname) was, literally, a rocket scientist. After serving briefly in the US Army and then graduating from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, he started his career in electronics working for NASA, where he was involved in designing and building instrumentation amplifiers for the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft. He left NASA to co-found (with Roger Noble) Philbrick Researchers and then later founded Nexus Research Laboratory, whose primary business