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Blacksburg, VA 24060-6136
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Science Studies
Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Austria (Vienna), 1931--1939
Australia
1939-1956Picton Elementary School
University of Sydney (student)
1958-1965University of Sydney (faculty)
University of Michigan
1956-58 post-doctoral research
1965-66 visiting lecturer & researcher
1966-78University of Kentucky
1978-99Virginia Polytechnic Institute
England 1972-73 University of Southampton
Scotland occasions Drumnadrochit (Lochness-side) & Inverness
since
1958
Summer 1956, University of Kyoto
Summer 1974, Sophia University & Rikagaku Kenkyusho (Tokyo)
Visiting Professor, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
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Editor-in-Chief, 2000-2007
Newsletter of the
Virginia Association of Scholars, affiliate of the
And when I am wrong, and therefore change my mind,
and am criticized for inconsistency, I cite John Maynard Keynes:
"When the facts change then my opinion changes: and you, sir?"
Two of my favorites, out-of-print for many years, are again available
The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery
To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean
Other relatively recent and pertinent books:
Latest book, published summer 2017
My continuing commentaries are now on my new blog
