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jstan
climber
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Jun 27, 2010 - 03:19pm PT
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I understand Lester was more than a fighter pilot in the First War. Shot down four or more enemy combatants and so was accorded status as an Ace. Without doubt no one here is old enough to appreciate the crap they had to fly in that war. At the beginning pilots were shooting out their own propellers.
Don Morton an astronomer at Princeton and a climbing buddy of Lyman's.
Willy Crowther who did lasting damage by teaching me to climb made up for it by inventing the first computer game. MIT.
Don't forget Kerwin. No one has mentioned Gill. For shame.
Hans Kraus.
Dirac generally looked as though he was somewhere else. Physics Today had a picture of him in suit and vest. The text opined the picture had been taken right after he had jumped down from a tree on campus. In that picture he looked as though he was actually there.
Bill Zauman
John Bousman. Anyone called him a civil engineer he took offense. Being called civil was an insult.
I had an idea last night while typing into ST. You don't want to hear about it.
Youse guys!
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apples
Boulder climber
Atlanta, GA
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Jun 27, 2010 - 03:56pm PT
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Frances Gulland: director of veterinary medicine at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA, co-author on hundreds of publications, author of the CRC Handbook of Marine Mammal Medicine, member or chair of many marine mammal committees including southern sea otter and Hawaiian monk seal recovery teams, advisor to marine mammal commission, advisor to many graduate students, feature in many news stories, articles, and documentaries.
Also, trad and sport climber traveling to many locations to climb with her husband including Tasmania, South America, Canada, and Europe.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Jun 27, 2010 - 05:05pm PT
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C. Michael Jefferson, Laser Physicist (retired) IBM Research Center; Ferretlegger on ST. Serious climbing and single handed sailing and racing since mid 1960s. Many patents and publications.
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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Jun 27, 2010 - 11:12pm PT
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Hey jstan
I've climbed with don Morton and will crowther and took a class from Dirac
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jstan
climber
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Jun 28, 2010 - 01:45am PT
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Mike:
Well, you have seen a good portion of what the earth has to offer IMO.
I tried to locate Don on the net but it at least seems he has retired. If you run into him say I said Hi.
John
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 21, 2010 - 04:38pm PT
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This is worthy of bumping.
Lots of climbers contribute to science.
It is good to acknowledge this fact and share their accomplishments.
Good read.
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steveA
Trad climber
bedford,massachusetts
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Dec 21, 2010 - 05:02pm PT
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I'll mention my son, Mark Arsenault, who earned a PHD from PENN in research on protein motors. He has quite a few publications on the subject and climbed El Cap before attending PENN. He just became the proud father of a baby boy, making me a happy grandfather.
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scuffy b
climber
Three feet higher
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Dec 21, 2010 - 05:04pm PT
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Climbing Is A Succession of Locks
The Haan Maxim
Peter Haan, ca. 1971
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Aya K
Trad climber
New York
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Dec 21, 2010 - 05:39pm PT
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I didn't know Lee Hood was a climber, interesting.
I was published in Science once, but I can't say I've contributed much.
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BBA
climber
OF
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Dec 25, 2010 - 12:51pm PT
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From the Starr King Peak Register, page 76, www.amborncpa.com
"August 10, 1938 Dr. C.R. Wylie Jr., Ohio State University. Came up alone via SE Saddle. Nice climb - nice view."
C.R. Wylie was a mathematician and poet. You never know who will show up climbing solo on Mt. Starr King! Aside from his poetry, his books also include 101 Puzzles in Thought and Logic, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Foundations of Geometry, and Introduction to Projective Geometry. His poem “Paradox” is quite good. Wylie neatly boxed in his entry, something only one other person did in the registers. Is this a turn of the mathematician’s mind?
and there are lots more like him in the register...
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 25, 2010 - 02:41pm PT
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i came by the name pagels from heinz's widow, elaine, one of the leading scholars in her field. i can't help but draw parallels between the pagels and the sacherers, hoping jan will understand. interesting couples, to say the least.
klim, we can't allow you to rehabilitate yourself with this thread. you're a mad scientist and we all know it. :-D
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 25, 2010 - 02:46pm PT
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Mad, anyway.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 25, 2010 - 04:40pm PT
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probably worth a bump for werner heisenberg, known for discussing physics problems on his way up mountains. coming from a hiking family, himself involved at the heart of the development of quantum physics, controversial for his role in germany during the war, still a man much to be admired, with a remarkable appreciation of music and poetry along with his science.
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jstan
climber
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Dec 25, 2010 - 08:09pm PT
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If I may weigh in on something beyond my experience.
You are living in a nation where people are becoming increasingly angry for no justifiable reason. The politics of the country is going horribly strange.
Your neighbors all say "this can't possibly happen!".
What are you to do?
Stay where all of your family lives and try to blunt the terror to the degree you may.
Or abandon it all and get your ass some place where people are still rational.
Knowing that if it came to war you would be shooting at your brother.
None of us has faced this, right?
Right?
Right?
But if we did, what would you do?
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Dec 25, 2010 - 08:21pm PT
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Steve Smale: extraordinary mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal and the Wolf Prize, climbed in the Tetons around the middle of the 20th century.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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Dec 25, 2010 - 09:13pm PT
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Or abandon it all and get your ass some place where people are still rational.
tell me where that would be, jstan.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Dec 26, 2010 - 01:30am PT
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I want to thank Tony for referring me to Heinz Pagels. Heinz published after I drifted away from the world of physics, so I wasn't familiar with him. I can see Tony's comparison of the interests of Heinz and Elaine to those of Frank and I, and while they certainly apply to Heinz and Frank, less so to Elaine and I.
Contrary to the perception created on some of ST's philosophical threads, my professional specialization is not religion but rather, cultural ecology. Religion and philsophy are just personal interests of mine.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Dec 27, 2010 - 01:08pm PT
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Another climber to add to the list is Lawrence Swan a naturalist and ecologist who taught at San Francisco State for 30 years and first went to Nepal to climb and collect specimens around Makalu in 1953. He has written an entertaining book about his time in the Himalayas called, Tales of the Himalaya… Adventures of a Naturalist, which gives really good insight into the workings of evolution and its importance to our understanding of the natural world.
I met Larry Swan a few times when I worked at the California Academy of Sciences and visited his house once with its huge aviaries connected to each other by large wire tunnels. Definitely an interesting character.
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Tricouni
Mountain climber
Vancouver
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Dec 27, 2010 - 03:45pm PT
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Lots of mountaineering geologists. Here are a few with B.C. connections:
Dick Culbert (Devil's Thumb, Cat's Ears, FWA Waddington, and hundreds of others)
Margaret Rusmore (first women's Annapurna expedition, Denali, some in Coast Mtns)
Peter Thompson (Mt. Fee, Logan)
Jon Jones (the Bugs, Dhaulagiri 1, dozens of FA rock routes)
Karl Ricker (Logan, much in SW BC)
Glenn Woodsworth (Serra 5, University Wall, hundreds of others)
I should probably mention Peter Misch, who climbed extensively in the Cascades, mostly undocumented, but didn't climb in BC as far as I know.
And mathematician Leif-Norman Patterson climbed extensively in North America, Norway, and South America.
There are dozens or hundreds of others.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Dec 27, 2010 - 05:36pm PT
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Matisse
I concurr
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