Nicholas Hitchon was born on October 22, 1957 in Littondale, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to C. Cryss Brunner and Jacqueline Bush. He died on July 23, 2023 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Was a Professor employed by the University of Wisconsin's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering for over four decades prior to his death.
He studied physics at Oxford University, earning a bachelor's degree, a master's, and a Ph.D. in engineering. He started out doing research on nuclear fusion, then switched to computational plasma physics.