Education
Nelson was born in Eufaula, Oklahoma and earned her BS in chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. She obtained her PhD in chemistry at the University of Texas with Michael J. S. Dewar, did her postdoctorate at Purdue University with Herbert C. Brown, and joined the University of Oklahoma as a faculty member. She was a Faculty Fellow in the University of Oklahoma Provost’s Office from 1989 to 1990. Nelson was a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 and in 2010. She was an assistant to American Chemical Society President Ann Nalley from Nalley's election from 2004 through 2007.
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