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Gentlemen, first of all, thank you very much for being here. I really appreciate it. Our pleasure. My pleasure. And if you don't mind, would you please just tell everybody who you are and state your resume, like what you do? I mean, just a brief version of your credentials.
I'm Dick Linsen and my whole life has been in academia. Basically I finished my doctorate at Harvard and I did spend a couple of years at the University of Washington and in Norway and in Boulder, Colorado. Then part of that was because at Harvard I was working in atmospheric sciences but they had no one who dealt with observations. So I went to Seattle for someone who did.
And then I got my first academic position at Chicago and stayed there about three, four years, moved on to Harvard, spent about 10 years there, and then to MIT for about the last 35 years until I retired in 2013. I've always enjoyed it. I mean, the field of atmospheric sciences, when I entered it, I mean, the joy of it was a lot of problems that were solvable. So you could look at phenomena.
One of them that I worked on was the so-called quasi-biennial cycle. Turns out the wind above the equator, about 16 kilometers, 20 kilometers, goes from east to west for a year, turns around, goes the other way for the next year, and so on. And, you know, we worked out why that happened. And there were other things like that. So it was a very enjoyable period until global warming.
And, sir, would you tell everybody what your credentials are, what you do, where you're from?
I'm Will Happer, and I'm a retired professor of physics at Princeton. And like Dick, I'm a science nerd. But I was actually born in India under the British Raj. My father was an army officer in the Indian Army, Scottish, and my mother was American. And that was before World War II. So when I came to America as a small child, my mother was working in Oak Ridge for the Manhattan Project. Wow.
So I remember, you know, the war days at Oak Ridge and that. That's probably why I went into physics. I thought this looks like an interesting way to make a living. And if I can do it, I'll do it. And I have. And I've done a number of things. I've spent a lot of time at universities, at Columbia, at Princeton.
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