a gene scrapbook
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A Gene Scrapbook. A Tribute to Gene Loh on the Occasion of His Retirement Feb 22, 2003. The Early Days. B.Sc. Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1955 Ph.D. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961. The Missing Years. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Gene Scrapbook
A Tribute to Gene Loh
on the Occasion of His Retirement
Feb 22, 2003
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The Early Days
B.Sc. Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1955
Ph.D. Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1961
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The Missing Years
Not much is known about Gene’s whereabouts between 1961 until his arrival to Utah…that is to say we cannot find any reliable witnesses who would talk to the investigators.
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De-classified Photo from Cornell Files
Subject is known to have fathered children sometime during the “Missing Years”
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De-classified Surveillance Photo
Seen in the company of suspicious members of the Intelligentsia associated with Cornell University
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Cornell Files (continued)
Subject seen to attend Party Congress of the subversive organization known as American Physical Society in New York City
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More from the Cornell Files
Subject known to congregate with unidentifiable persons, burning certain unidentified objects in protest of hunger (obviously a subversive cause)
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Cornell Files
Subject seen here embedding what appears to be a roll of microfilm, presumably containing secret materials, into marine biologicals (probably kelp) for transport by sea.
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Why did Gene leave Cornell?
He got tired of shoveling all that lake-effect snow coming from Lake Ontario in Up-State New York
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Why did Gene come to Utah?
He decided to move his family to some place warm, and near a large body of salt water
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The Utah Years
Thanksgiving of 1976: First Fluorescence Events seen at
Volcano Ranch. Gene was on shift
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The Fly’s Eye
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HiRes
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The Utah Years
Distinguished Professor (1977-) Department Chairman (1980-89) Governor’s Medal of Science (1987) Distinguished Researcher (1993) Director of the High-EnergyAstrophysics
Institute (1993-1998) Fellow of the American Physical Society
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1998-
In 1998 Gene went on leave to the National Science Foundation to start a new particle astrophysics program.
We in the cosmic ray group really missed him!
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OWL
While he was in Washington D.C., Gene also championed the cause of the next generation of (satellite-based) fluorescence detectors: The Orbiting Wide-angled Lens (OWL)
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NightGlow
As a precursor to OWL Gene has been working on NightGlow.
Along the way he has done some Missionary work, spreading the Gospel of the Great Pumpkin to the Children of Alice Springs, Australia
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Gene in Japan
Gene spent some time vacationing at KEK in Japan measuring fluorescence yield from an electron beam (forerunner to the new FLASH experiment).
Unnamed source who is on sabbatical says Gene is seen here putting epoxy on the beam line to stop a leak.
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Not having SPRINT PCS wireless service, Gene tried to book a vacation on the beach in Rio via Sao Paulo. The static interference caused him to become visitor #11798 in the chill at the South Pole...
where, according to Gene, the ATM machine is always out of cash, and they don’t take American Express!
He said the trip was most rejuvenating!
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Gene’s Travels
Gene has recently visited such exotic destinations as Salt Lake City, Utah
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Happy Retirement!!!!
We wish you a happy retirement!!!!
Although we are sure that you will not just be spending more time with your grandchildren