{"id":3814,"date":"2013-08-26T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2013-08-26T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:14:22","slug":"my-contribution-to-physics-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3814","title":{"rendered":"My contribution to physics research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>In college I worked for awhile as a &#8220;research helper&#8221; in the nuclear physics group at Iowa State.\u00a0 I got the job because a friend from my church group was a graduate student in physics.<\/p>\n<p>I helped gather data and ran computer programs to crunch the data.\u00a0 There was a little bit of operator skill involved in running the programs, but I didn&#8217;t think it was very difficult.\u00a0 The data was on old style reel tapes.\u00a0 So, I had to do computer-operator stuff to load the tapes.\u00a0 Pretty exciting because I got to play around in the machine room with a Vax 11\/780.<\/p>\n<p>But!\u00a0 My real contribution to the effort:\u00a0 I was an architectural student at the time and I had mechanical drawing classes.\u00a0 So it was my job to do the lettering on most of the graphs and diagrams that were submitted to the publisher when the paper was written.\u00a0 The chart was done on a plotter.\u00a0 I did the error bars and the lettering.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example from one paper.\u00a0 They even put my name in the authors section, which was a very kind gesture:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=3815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3815\" alt=\"physics fig\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0080-700x951.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"951\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0080-700x951.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0080-753x1024.jpg 753w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0080.jpg 859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=3816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3816\" alt=\"physics paper\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0079-700x348.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0079-700x348.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0079-1024x510.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Scan_Pic0079.jpg 1658w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: 5 miles] In college I worked for awhile as a &#8220;research helper&#8221; in the nuclear physics group at Iowa State.\u00a0 I got the job because a friend from my church group was a graduate student in physics. I helped gather data and ran computer programs to crunch the data.\u00a0 There was a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3821,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}