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Re: Physics degrees and navigation
From: Tom Sult
Date: 2010 Feb 15, 08:33 -0600
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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- >