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I've been searching for 20 minutes for a profile on Prof Emeritus Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara and have come up with nada.

That's OK. Search some more. He's there.

30 posted on 10/10/2010 2:20:17 PM PDT by Seven plus One
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Here’s a transcript of a very long rambling oral interview of Prof. Hal Lewis from 1986 which explains why there’s no profile on him:

Transcript
Dr. Aaserud:
Your papers — correspondence, notes, manuscripts, things of that sort — what’s the status of those? That’s another thing we’re interested in.
Dr. Lewis:
Yes. I really don’t have them, you know. I’ve long since either lost in moving or discarded everything that I had. So I have no papers around from JASON, if that’s what you mean.
Aaserud:
No, generally — both JASON and generally speaking.
Lewis:
There are lots of things, but they’re scattered in a complicated way. Generally speaking, I throw things away after a few years, so the only things I have are the things that have accumulated over the last few years and are relevant to the things I’m actually doing these days.
Aaserud:
That’s another thing that the Center is strongly involved in — just saving papers for historical purposes.
Lewis:
Yes, I understand. But I have enough trouble keeping up with current papers.
Aaserud:
But if for any reason you wanted help or advice on what to keep and how to keep it and where to go and all that, then we’d be happpy to help on that. But for JASON in particular, you don’t have anything.
Lewis:
No, I don’t.
Aaserud:
I should have asked you this long before; I may have. I called your secretary about a biography, or a vitae at any rate.
Lewis:
Yes. I don’t usually keep a standard vitae. When people want to know who I am, I just tell them what they need to know.
Aaserud:
That’s what we’ll do here too, then. A bibliography — do you have that?
Lewis:
Well, they do have one of those at school, but it has nothing to do with these subjects.
Aaserud:
That’s the problem with this kind of area.
Lewis:
I have a bibliography of the things I’ve written in physics, but that’s really all I have.
Aaserud:
That would be useful too, of course. You don’t have a copy of that here? I am interviewing Hal Lewis in his home on the 6th of July, 1986. We’ll discuss mostly your JASON involvement, but with an eye to the rest of your career as well. It’s up to you how much of that you will cover, and we’ll start with the beginning. You were born in New York City on the 1st of October, 1923.
Lewis:
That is correct.

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http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/4742.html


38 posted on 10/10/2010 3:10:07 PM PDT by shove_it (have a nice day)
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