Improbable Research

Ig Nobel Prize winner Jim Gundlach, co-author of the study “The Effects of Country Music on Suicide,” in Upper Oddington, England, during the 2008 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK. The tour is part of the UK’s National Science Week.

Photo: Carol Gundlach.

(That’s an excerpt from AIR 14:4. A glorious large version of the photo appears on the magazine’s back cover.)

Tony Fristachi has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He says:

I am a quantitative environmental health scientist specializing in using probabilistic methodology to estimate human environmental exposures.

Tony Fristachi, MS, LFHCfS
Research Scientist
Battelle, Statistics & Information Analysis
Columbus, OH USA

Philip Resnik, a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists, has a new photo (and, after a surprising length of time, we have corrected the spelling of his name and other typos that we had managed to inflict on his original club listing).

Philip Resnik
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, College Park

Jan or Johann Josef Loschmidt (March 15, 1821 - July 8, 1895) has joined as a historical member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Dr. Siegfried Peer, who nominated him, says:

He was the first to determine the number of molecules of an ideal gas in 1 cm3. This is now known as the “Loschmidt number” L = 2.687 × 1019 cm-3. The number of hair per cm2 in his luxurious flowing beard by the way is around 60.

Jan or Johann Josef Loschmidt, LFHCfS
Chemist/physicist
Austria

Ludwig Boltzmann (February 20, 1844 – September 5, 1906) has joined as a historical member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Dr. Siegfried Peer, who nominated him, says:

He is famous for his contributions to statistical thermodynamics and the Boltzmann equation, describing the dynamics of an ideal gas. Besides bearer of an almost ideal luxurious flowing beard.

Ludwig Boltzmann, LFHCfS
Physicist
Austria