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The subject of older scientists and engineers is dead to my heart: During grad school, one of my professional heroes was Professor Neville Mott of Cambridge University. Throughout his long career, he made significant contributions, and was active, professionally, into his 90s. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for work he did in his <b><i>60s</i></b> – opening up the theory of the electronic structure of amorphous (glassy) solids.<div><br></div><div>Incidentally, my doctoral thesis and first physics publications were in a related area, the “Semiconductor-to-Metal Transition”, which was also pioneered by Professor Mott.<br><br> – Mike Alexander<br><br><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Thursday, October 20, 2022, 6:58 PM, Harry Forsdick <forsdick@gmail.com> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv2259759188"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="yiv2259759188gmail_default">Folks,</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="yiv2259759188gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="yiv2259759188gmail_default">Michael Hecht will be our speaker next Wednesday. Mike sent me an article that appeared in the Boston Globe in 2015 as they were just starting the project they will be talking about:</div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#0b5394;" class="yiv2259759188gmail_default"><ul><li><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV5ljy-WhR6PMoQBmFo2o6PXjVrUYALOUGZ19nfOMu4/edit?usp=sharing">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GV5ljy-WhR6PMoQBmFo2o6PXjVrUYALOUGZ19nfOMu4/edit?usp=sharing</a><br></li></ul><div>The theme of the article seems to be, "Even older scientists and engineers can come up with innovative ideas." Really? Who would have thought that was possible... :-) Of course Mike is one of the younger members of the team at 61. </div><div><br></div><div>This should be an interesting talk about a current project that has gotten a lot of recent attention in the press.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-- Harry</div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="yiv2259759188gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br></div><table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:19.2px;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-left:0px;margin-right:auto;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.forsdick.com/resume/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Harry Forsdick</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtonphotoscan.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Lexington Photo Scanning</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://lexingtontmma.org/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Town Meeting Member Precinct 7</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:harry@forsdick.com" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">harry@forsdick.com</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://www.forsdick.com/" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);">www.forsdick.com</a><br></td><td width="5"> </td><td valign="top" style="font-size:10pt;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://goo.gl/xZXT2F" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">46 Burlington St.<br>Lexington, MA 02420</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="callto:17817996002" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">(781) 799-6002 (mobile)</a><br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick">meet.jit.si/HarryForsdick</a> (video)<br><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="http://forsdick.weebly.com/home/my-websites" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);">Click</a> to see my other websites<br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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