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| I was born on Friday, 13 December 1935 in Shattuck, Ellis County Oklahoma. I attended grade and high school at Arnett, Oklahoma, the county seat of Ellis County, graduating in 1954. I graduated with honors from Oklahoma Baptist University (Profile In Excellence award 1985), with majors in physics and mathematics and a minor in chemistry in 1958. I got the Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963. After two and one-half years as a postdoctoral appointtee at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory , in Livermore, California, I taught two years at Kentucky Southern College in Louisville, Kentucky. I joined the physics faculty at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (now Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) in 1967. I was Department Head from 1990-1995. In 1996 I took an early retirement option at half pay with no duties; I officially retired on 1 June 1998. |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I enjoy being a part of this research project. I think that the odds of finding any intelligent signal are small. (See the Rare Earth book.) However, surprises sometimes happen in research. |
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