Thank you for publishing my letter about ?Important Jargons in Scientific Reports? (AIR Vents 14:1), and for publishing my reply (?Unimportant Perspectives on Important Jargons,? AIR Vents 14:6) to the angry letters to my letter (AIR Vents 14:3, 14:4, 14:5). I ought to disclose that I am not a completely disinterested party. My mother, Emily Franchot Jargon, was an astronomer. Being a woman (as she most assuredly was) and having a supposedly funny-sounding surname, she was not always credited for the discoveries she made. Now perhaps you better understand why I decided to collect research reports by scientists who are named Jargon?be they women or men!?and to try to help them get the recognition that they probably deserve. Here is one of my latest finds: ?Nonlinear Large-Signal Scattering Parameters: Theory and Applications,? Jeffrey A. Jargon, K.C. Gupta, and Donald C. DeGroot, ARFTG Conference Digest, June 2004, pp. 157?74. I will endeavor to find more, and invite your readers to join me in this questionable quest.
Burriss J. Fisk North Bay, Ontario, Canada
(That?s an excerpt from the article ?
Air Vents (Exhalations from our readers),? published in AIR 14:1.)
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008 at 12:02 am
under Letters from readers.
