Cha Gheill!
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
~ Albert Einstein ~
On this page I present some memories and links, and photos, about staff and graduate students of the Department of Physics of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, taken circa 1965.
My text is in black. Text copied from the Net is in maroon or, as highlighted by me, in red.
Copyright
I do not claim copyright in, or ownership of, any of the photos displayed on this page, or in any photo that is accessible by one direct linkage from this page, or in any photo appearing on any physics alumni pages directly linked to this page, except that I retain copyright in the maple-leaf logo image atop this page, and in photos which are identified as having been taken by me, Wayne. (See the Big logo page for how it was created.)
Pondering what the Queen's 3-MeV Van de Graff proton accelerator is brewing up. Circa 1969.
File: QPhysicC\VGCon480.gif (480 x 360, 8.05 KB). Photo by Wayne Paulson.
. . . Queen's University - Campus Tour - Stirling Hall: http://www.queensu.ca/admission/tour19.htm Photos, maps.
. . . Sources for tracing physics alumni and staff
. . . Queen's University Physics Department People: http://www.physics.queensu.ca/People/index.php?show=1
. . . Group photo A of physics staff and students
. . . . . . List of people in Photo A
. . . Group photo B of physics staff and students
. . . . . . List of people in Photo B
. . . Photos on the Web
Articles and links
Sources for tracing physics alumni and staff
Sources about Queen's:
Physics at Queen's University: http://www.Physics.QueensU.ca or http://www.physics.queensu.ca Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy
The Common Room @ Queen's - An Online Community for Alumni, Parents and Friends: http://alumni.queensu.ca/index_new.php Includes a search engine: Find a Friend in the Online Directory.
Queen's University - Online Directory: http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/QUE/oldintro/oldintro.cgi Find a friend. I have registered here on 21 Dec 02. That can give one a . . . tricolour . . . e-address (although it could take more than a few minutes to take effect -- I will test it again, as it initially failed to work).
Queen's Alumni Review Index: http://alumnireview.queensu.ca/letters/
Queen's University Alumni Directory 1998. Besides biographical information and addresses, it includes a listing of e-mail addresses. Enquiries about the Directory can be sent to the publisher, HARRIS, at: Harris' Customer Service Department: Phone 800 877-6554, E-mail: customerservice@bcharrispub.com
Graduate Calendar Physics: http://www.queensu.ca/calendars/sgsr/Physics.htm
groups: http://engsoc.queensu.ca/groups.php Queen's engineering students. . .
Mathematics & Engineering - Applied Science at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada: http://appsci.queensu.ca/math/people/
Queen's University Campus Index: http://mirr.whnet.edu.cn/www.queensu.ca/AtoZlist.html
Queen's Encyclopedia: http://qnc.queensu.ca/Encyclopedia/index.html
Queen's WWW Directory: http://www.queensu.ca/qsite/atoz/
Other universities:
Universities Worldwide Homepage: http://geowww.uibk.ac.at/univ/ Links to 6417 Universities in 171 countries (27-11-2002)
Links - Universities
and Colleges all over the World best University directories:
http://www.oulu.fi/other/universities.html
Phone directories for Canada:
. . . Canada411: http://canada411.sympatico.ca/
. . . www.queensu.ca - Telephone and Email Directory: http://www.queensu.ca/qsite/atoz/phone.shtml Queen's University telephone and e-mail directory by name of person or department
. . . Ex-Deep River Residents Directory: http://bright-ideas-software.com/BIData/XDRDir.asp?letter=H
Phone directories for USA:
. . . WhoWhere Phone Numbers & Addresses: http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/Phone
. . . Telephone Directory - Switchboard Internet Yellow Pages, White Pages, Maps: http://www.switchboard.com/
. . . New Mexico Phone Directory: http://www.comsearch.net/usa_states/nm_new_mexico/phone_directory.htm
Other public tracers:
. . . ARCHIVES OF ONTARIO: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/
. . . OregonLive.com Oregon State Archives: http://www.oregonlive.com/obits/orarcweb.ssf Birth, death, coroner, divorce, . . .
If all else fails:
AMW-America's Most Wanted: http://www.amwweb.com/
Group photo A of physics staff and students
I have two photos to present, one of which I only discovered on 1 Dec 02. They had been tucked away in my Tricolor '60 for decades! Let's call them Photo A and Photo B for now.
Photo A
I have had this photo safely stored in my Ph.D. thesis document for over 30 years. Below is a photo of it, in my first attempt to take a photo of a photo with my digital camera. It has faded toward too much red, alas; however, not as much as if it had been exposed to light all of these years.
Photo A, small: Queen's physics staff and grad students at Stirling Hall, circa Fall, 1966, to Summer, 1967
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For a list of who is in the photo (and a slighly larger photo), go to List of people in Photo A.
For larger versions of this photo A, go to Page contents (off this page).
If you would like a different size of photo, let me know, and I can send one to you. Note that even the so-called original (the largest photo) is jpg-compressed, even as stored in the camera. Further reductions in size are, therefore, jpg-compressions of jpg-compressions.
I do not know in what year the photo was taken; however, it is after the Winter of 1961, and before the Fall of 1969, when I finally departed to join IBM in Ottawa! It was taken in front of the front right-hand (north-west) entrance to Stirling Hall, the new physics building (replacing the old Ontario Hall in that capacity).
The size of the original photo is 5" x 7". Therefore, even the intermediate-sized photo below shows up on my 19" screen as being slightly larger than the original. The camera seems to have done a good job of automatically adjusting for the color temperature of the ambient light, using what is termed a White Balance feature. I tried manual overrides of it, but the automatic mode gave the best apparent color balance, which was slightly on the red side, even in the original. I used two desk lamps with tungsten bulbs, aided somewhat by four overhead tungsten and fluorescent lights in our kitchen, and several magnets to flatten the slightly warped picture paper against a metal plate used for cooking pastry. So, who says I am useless in the kitchen? My wife, that's who! (And she's right!) : - )
Not quite so useful in the automatic category was automatic focus, partly because the front of the camera lens was only about 5" from the picture plane, and therefore, not equidistant from all parts of its object. Therefore, its attempt to produce a compromise focus was not as good as what I ended up using: manual focus, although even that is partly automatic!
Group photo B of physics staff and students
Photo B, small: Queen's physics staff and grad students at Stirling Hall, circa Fall, 1966, to Summer, 1967??
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For larger versions of this photo B, go to Page contents for Group photos A and B (off this page).
I took this photo of the original paper Photo B a bit differently than for Photo A above. I raised the camera to about a foot from the photo, and zoomed the telephoto lens a bit -- the rationale being that it would result in sharper focus throughout the image, in spite of the slightly less depth of field entailed with a 'longer' lens. There might be a bit too much light illuminating the photo. I might try again using less light.
I might sort the following links into a more logical arrangement; however, for now, here are some sites that have photos of, or are related to, Queen's University, especially as involving physics. I have not reproduced any of these here, for reasons of copyright.
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada: http://www.queensu.ca/ Home page of Queen's.
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada: http://mirr.whnet.edu.cn/www.queensu.ca/
Liaison-Queen's University - Campus Tour: http://www.queensu.ca/admission/tour.htm Take a photo-tour of the Queen's Campus complete with links to campus websites. Excellent source of very many photos, links, and a map of the campus.
Queen's University Physics Department People: http://www.physics.queensu.ca/People/index.php?show=1
Joseph S. Stauffer Library (Kingston, Canada) Dedication: http://library.queensu.ca/stauffer/dedicate.htm
Dave Hanes' Home Page: http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~hanes/ Dave Hanes, Professor, Astronomy Group and Head, Department of Physics, Queen's University. Photo.
The Early History of Astronomy at Queen's University: http://www.casca.ca/ecass/issues/2001-me/features/queens/astphys.html V. A. Hughes, Professor Emeritus Department of Physics, Queen's University . . . Photos: . . . 1. The old observatory, circa 1860. 2. The Carruthers observatory.
Denis Pollney: http://www.astro.queensu.ca/~pollney/ Hello. This is a page about me. I'm currently working with Kayll Lake and Peter Musgrave, studying gravitation. Since Einstein, scientists have believed that gravity can be described by a curvature of the four dimensional space in which we live. . . . No photos, but interesting work!
Queen's Herstmonceaux Castle (England):
http://www.queensu.ca/surp/pictures/Canada3-Queen's-Englandcampus.jpg Yes, it does have a moat, and a drawbridge, and a garden, and . . . ! See grand photo! This is part of the site http://www.queensu.ca/surp/Chinaprojects.htm, with many photos, mostly far from the campus!
And just how would one get to that castle? Well, you're virtually there already, as the following will explain (be careful not to fall into the moat!) . . .
Queen's Network Overview Internet Connectivity: http://www.its.queensu.ca/network/overview/internet.shtml
. . . For example, to get from Queen's University to Herstmonceaux Castle (Queen's in the UK), the data will travel from Queen's, through the ONet link to Toronto, onto Teleglobe's network, from there to psi.net, across the Atlantic Ocean, and finally to the Castle's network. . . .
APOD June 23, 1999 - The Sudbury Neutrino Detector: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990623.html Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
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