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| | ==Milt== |
| | Milt was a great contributor to our project who invested a lot of his own knowledge and time in it; Citizendium is much poorer without him. He was highly trusted and respected, previously serving as the project's Treasurer and on the elected Management and Editorial Councils. However, we were a small part of a long life: Milt completed his degree in 1944, but his graduation was delayed while he saw action in Europe during the Second World War. Decades of experience in both chemical and environmental engineering followed, and he would become a well-published authority on various aspects of these fields, as recognized by his Fellowship of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His daughter also tells me he liked to apply his engineering approach to everyday life by collecting recipes and carefully replicating dishes he'd enjoyed. Milt stood firm against pseudoscience and other nonsense, as we at Citizendium can attest, and was a strong proponent of the science and the facts. I am sure I speak for those who knew him here when I say that we will miss him. [[User:John Stephenson|John Stephenson]] ([[User talk:John Stephenson|talk]]) 12:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP Milt. He was a nice gent. [[User:Ro Thorpe|Ro Thorpe]] ([[User talk:Ro Thorpe|talk]]) 14:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP Milt. [[User:JeromeDelacroix|Jérôme Delacroix]] ([[User talk:JeromeDelacroix|talk]]) 18:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC+1) |
| | :RIP Milt. You embodied the true spirit of Citizendium at its best.[[User:Roger A. Lohmann|Roger A. Lohmann]] ([[User talk:Roger A. Lohmann|talk]]) 04:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
| | :RIP MIlt. As a collaborator and colleague, he will be missed. [[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] ([[User talk:Russell D. Jones|talk]]) 16:33, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| == Guidance sought on Astrophysics article and creating a 'dating' article ==
| | Milt had an abundance of wisdom, passion and knowledge. He was with Citizendium from the early days, and embraced fully the spirit and idealism with which Citizendium was launched. He made an enormous contribution to the project. [[User:Gareth Leng|Gareth Leng]] ([[User talk:Gareth Leng|talk]]) 21:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC) |
| Dear Milton: Thank you for the email notifications. John Brews has also left a pleasant note on my User talk page. It's a little intimidating observing the tremendous achievement among contributors, such as yourself and John. As a technician and later an engineer working night shift much of his professional life I cannot claim such distinction.
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| The [[Astrophysics]] article has an error which seems elementary to me, though. Discussing the density of ordinary and dark matter, it states in effect that <math>W_B + W_D < 1\,</math>; essentially, that both put together aren't sufficient to close the universe. And yet it says this means that "if that is all there is, the universe would eventually stop expanding and collapse". Isn't this exactly the opposite of what's intended?
| | I have missed Milt ever since he needed to leave the project, and I will always remember him fondly.[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] ([[User talk:Pat Palmer|talk]]) 01:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC) |
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| Most of my professional contributions related to analysis of other people's designs of boilers, pressure vessels etc. to the usual industry standards (ASME VIII,1 and BS5500). As such they are hardly original, though for lifts and cranes I actually wrote my own space frame code on an old HP 9845B; and now I think about it, a special bit of code which did a thin-plate finite element analysis of heat exchanger endplates. This was quite primitive by modern standards (I had to create the mesh by hand, for example).
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| Such computational shortcuts allowed me to certify some designs as safe - or otherwise, in the case of certain French cranes built to a Norme Française, which were probably perfectly designed but which were a bit too cutting edge for me. Either they weren't conformal with the usual ASME or BS standards, or there was some special threat (like earthquake or wind loading).
| | Let us temper our sadness in the passing of our esteemed colleague with a celebration of his achievements in his field of endeavor. Google Scholar has tabulated 111 articles he published between 1951 and 2005, with links to them and to all the articles that cited them. |
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| So I was at one time fairly technically proficient in my field(s) but except for the 1986 Lift (elevator) code for NZ, not the author of anything like a reference work. With one exception: I did actually once get co-opted into writing a paper jointly with two other gentlemen on carbon dating (I had skills in signal processing which they lacked). One project I had in mind when joining Citizendium was to write about the calibration stochastic distortion associated with nonlinearities in radiocarbon decay.
| | See: [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kBHMSC4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra MR Beychok] |
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| But there's no radiocarbon dating article I can add to! There is one in Wikipedia, though it's patchy. Should I create a new one?
| | [[User:Anthony.Sebastian|Anthony.Sebastian]] ([[User talk:Anthony.Sebastian|talk]]) 22:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC) |
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| Also, should I include a mathematical formula with LaTeX? When it comes to LaTeX my favourite shortcut is to import LaTeX into AbiWord but that converts it to MathML. Besides I've never created an article before, let alone one with equations in it.
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| --[[User:Terry Richard Linter Cole|Terry Richard Linter Cole]] 10:18, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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| :Terry, I have no expertise whatsoever in astrophysics, so I cannot help you regarding the [[Astrophysics]] article. At the moment, I am very busy with other matters and I suggest that you contact [[User:John R. Brews|John Brews]] with all of your above questions.
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| :However, I will tell you that any mathematics should be either in LaTeX or html ... with LaTeX being preferable. Also, we have a policy against importing WP articles. So, if you want to write an article about radiocarbon dating, please create a new one.
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| :Again, please contact [[User:John R. Brews|John Brews]] with your above questions. You might also contact [[User:Daniel Mietchen|Daniel Mietchen]] who is one of our active Physics editors. Regards, [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:03, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
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| ==You might to check these contributions==
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| Milt I sent a message to a Constable to review these contributions but since you are online you might want to take a look. The contributions are from a new contributor so I am sure he needs a bit of guidance. See: [[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Pablo_Mart%C3%ADn_Zampini]] Thanks for checking this out. [[User:Mary Ash|Mary Ash]] 04:30, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
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| == Assistance on photographs´ authors ==
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| Regards, Mr. Beychok.
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| I am the new man in the town, and I published the article [[White Argentine]] in this encyclopedia, and I uploaded many photos that are planned to appear in it. Most of them are from Wikipedia, and they are in Public Domain according to Argentine law. Nevertheless, I have found hard to get the name(s) of their author(s). For example, a very well know photo of F1 car racer [[http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/File:Fangio.png Juan Manuel Fangio taken in 1952]]; I looked it up in a collection named "Photograph in Argentine History" published by Clarín newspaper from my country, where most photos had their sources and authors, and it displays the label "Unidentified author". In the case of photos taken from Argentina Presidency official site, they are all credited to the official photographer of the Casa Rosada, but there are others taken by anonymous contributors to Wikipedia whom I cannot get their names. Other photos of Argentine Presidents from the XIX century have a similar difficulty, for they only display the history book they were taken from, all the sources for ALL the photos appearing in that book. Other authors here adviced me to contact you for guidance. Thanks for your attention. --[[User:Pablo Martín Zampini|Pablo Martín Zampini]] 13:47, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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| :Pablo, I am sorry but I have too many other matters to attend to at the moment. Please discuss your problems with one of our Constables and ask them to contact Stephen Ewan who set up Citizendium's original policies on images imported from Wikimedia Commons. As I recall, his policy stated that we '''must''' obtain the real names of the image creators for any images imported from either Wikimedia Commons or from Flickr. Lacking a real name, then I would guess that the name of an entity like a U.S. government agency, a company name, a museum name, etc. should be sufficient.
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| :'''I repeat, ask one of our Constables to contact Stephen Ewan ... or perhaps Larry Sanger, our original founder.''' I am fairly sure that the constables should be able to contact one of them. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:11, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
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Milt
Milt was a great contributor to our project who invested a lot of his own knowledge and time in it; Citizendium is much poorer without him. He was highly trusted and respected, previously serving as the project's Treasurer and on the elected Management and Editorial Councils. However, we were a small part of a long life: Milt completed his degree in 1944, but his graduation was delayed while he saw action in Europe during the Second World War. Decades of experience in both chemical and environmental engineering followed, and he would become a well-published authority on various aspects of these fields, as recognized by his Fellowship of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His daughter also tells me he liked to apply his engineering approach to everyday life by collecting recipes and carefully replicating dishes he'd enjoyed. Milt stood firm against pseudoscience and other nonsense, as we at Citizendium can attest, and was a strong proponent of the science and the facts. I am sure I speak for those who knew him here when I say that we will miss him. John Stephenson (talk) 12:27, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- RIP Milt. He was a nice gent. Ro Thorpe (talk) 14:04, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
- RIP Milt. Jérôme Delacroix (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC+1)
- RIP Milt. You embodied the true spirit of Citizendium at its best.Roger A. Lohmann (talk) 04:11, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
- RIP MIlt. As a collaborator and colleague, he will be missed. Russell D. Jones (talk) 16:33, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Milt had an abundance of wisdom, passion and knowledge. He was with Citizendium from the early days, and embraced fully the spirit and idealism with which Citizendium was launched. He made an enormous contribution to the project. Gareth Leng (talk) 21:07, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
I have missed Milt ever since he needed to leave the project, and I will always remember him fondly.Pat Palmer (talk) 01:18, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Milt's productivity as chemical engineer
Let us temper our sadness in the passing of our esteemed colleague with a celebration of his achievements in his field of endeavor. Google Scholar has tabulated 111 articles he published between 1951 and 2005, with links to them and to all the articles that cited them.
See: MR Beychok
Anthony.Sebastian (talk) 22:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
Where Milt lives it is approximately: 03:19