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    Re: Physics degrees and navigation
    From: Tom Sult
    Date: 2010 Feb 15, 08:33 -0600

    My undergrad degree is chemistry but I took 2 years of Physics and 2
    years of calc... Then bailed to Med school...
    Thomas A. Sult, MD
    IntegraCare Clinic
    www.icareclinics.com
    tsult@mac.com
    
    
    
    
    On Feb 14, 2010, at 9:09 PM, Frank Reed wrote:
    
    > I'm taking a poll:
    > How many NavList members have degrees in physics or astrophysics?
    >
    > I think it's a significant fraction of our active members. There's
    > me, of course. Also, I believe that the following people have all
    > said that they have physics degrees of one sort or another: George
    > Huxtable, John Karl, John Huth, Peter Hakel, Geoffrey Kolbe. How
    > many others? I'm just curious --you won't be put on any list ;-). I
    > suspect that people who have studied physics are a sort of "natural
    > audience" for the mathematical aspects of celestial navigation and
    > positional astronomy.
    >
    > While I'm thinking demographics, I remember Luis Soltero during his
    > presentation at Mystic Seaport back in 2006 mentioned that he had
    > the strange feeling that a lot of his customers for his celestial
    > navigation software were dentists (!). Do we have any dentists on
    > NavList??
    >
    > -FER
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