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Ever since Fermilab engineer Giobatta Lanfranco was a kid, he had a passion for archeology. It started with Tex Willer comics. "They were Westerns about a Ranger who solved mysteries about the Maya and Aztecs," he said. Lanfranco, who grew up in Loano, Italy, admits the comics got some facts and locations very wrong, but they piqued his curiosity; he wanted to know more about ancient civilizations.
"As a kid, I would ride my bike past ancient Roman bridges and structures that were still sturdy," said Lanfranco, who now designs spoke resonators and RF tuning systems for Fermilab's High Intensity Neutrino Source project. "I was amazed that they were still perfectly standing, while things built in the medieval ages were already crumbling." Living in a region rich in history and prehistoric findings, Lanfranco wanted to learn more about other ancient civilizations and their artistic and technological marvels--including those of the Mayans and Aztecs he'd read about in comic books.
In 2002, Lanfranco finally took his first trip to Peru with "just a good guide book, backpack and a camera." He saw the Incas' forgotten city of Macchu Picchu, visited the artificial islands woven from reeds on Lake Titicaca and spent time on the desert-volcanic part of Peru where other civilizations flourished centuries before the Incas established their empire. Since then, Lanfranco has returned to Central and South America several times, traveling by bus to visit archeological sites and mingle with locals. "I am interested in the people, their customs, their food, their traditions," he said, "it is striking for me to look at them and feel the past alive in the present."
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| Bruce Worthel of the Accelerator Division wrote in response to yesterday's "In the News" item.
Dear FT: It was an interesting article. I wonder if the physicists actually do sing "Wake Up Little Susie"?
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Guardian UK, October 10, 2006: Faking the physics If a sociologist can convince a jury of physicists that he is an expert on gravity waves, doesn't that mean he is one? Slate and Openscience recently reported of an extraordinarily interesting experiment carried out by Professor Harry Collins, a sociologist working at Cardiff University. Prof Collins is a sociologist who has spent the last 30 years studying the community of scientists who work on the detection of gravity waves. The idea was originally to study the dissemination of a major discovery through the scientific community, but unfortunately the discovery of gravity waves was imminent in 1976 and has been imminent ever since, but there you go.
A consequence of this long-term involvement, however, is that Prof Collins has been hanging around the gravity waves community for longer than a lot of physicists and has picked up a lot of the language. He's attended their conferences and interviewed all the major figures in the field countless times (the physicists look forward to his arrival, apparently, because he gets around a lot more than they do and puts more effort into networking, so he can often tell them new things that other people are doing in their subject).
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