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Originally Posted by Cougar
I suppose DGRuss is the "highest ranking" academically of the "usual suspects" in the Arp thread. Is it Mr. Russell or Dr. Russell? Is your "associated institution" still a high school?[/font]
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I hope this
ad hominem isn't intended as a "dig", when most contributors to a BAUT hide behind pseudonyms.
I will point out that many breakthroughs in science came from scientists working outside of their field.
Mr William Herschel (1738-1822) was musician and composer,
M. Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) was a tax collector,
Mr Georg Ohm (1789-1854) was a humble schoolteacher,
Mr Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was a book-binder apprentice, etc.
And Hannes Alfvén, an electrical power engineer, contributed significantly to astrophysical plasmas, succesfully predicting magnetic breaking, magnetohydrodynamic waves, field-aligned "Birkeland" currents, critical ionization velocity, jet streams, electrostatic double layers, and synchrotron radiation from astronomical sources.
Regards,
Ian Tresman