"George N. (Nick) Clements" (October 5, 1940 – August 30, 2009) was an American linguist/theoretical linguist specializing in phonology. Clements was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and educated in New Haven, Paris and London. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1973, defending a thesis on the Ewe language based on a year of field work in Ghana. He was a visiting scientist at M.I.T. (1973–75) and held appointments as professor at Harvard (1975–82) and Cornell (1982–91) before moving to the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.) in Paris in 1992. He died of cancer in Chatham, Massachusetts, at the age of 68.

Clements' main research was in phonology with a special focus on African languages. He is best known for his research in syllable/syllable theory, tone (linguistics)/tone and distinctive feature/feature theory which have contributed to the modern theory of sound patterning in spoken language. At the time of his death, his work was concerned with the principles underlying speech sound inventories across languages.

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We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

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Nothing really physically changed. We had still been going into work at Advanced Energy, but we were working for a different company. Then we were told we would no longer have jobs. We don't really know what happened.

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We don't know if it was (Advanced Energy's) intention (from the beginning) to sell it, or what happened. I've heard that Advanced Plasma investors and management are trying to salvage the company. But I'm not really interested, just because of the way things went.

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