User:Wwheaton
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Re 'WilWheaton'
[edit]I am not him !! But my real name is really William Wheaton. Sorry for the confusion, but I have priority, having got my name in 1942.
History
[edit]I have especially strong interests in physics, and in space exploration and associated technology.
I got my PhD at UCSD in 1976. After UCSD, I took a postdoc at MIT until 1979. Then I went to JPL to work on cosmic gamma-ray astronomy for 17 years. Then after leaving JPL in 1996, I worked at IPAC on the Caltech campus, on infra-red astronomy, for 15 more.
I finally retired from IPAC in 2010, due to worsening of an old skeletal disability. The latter explains my absence from Wikipedia for the past 10 years. I apologize for leaving here cold turkey, but my disability and sudden change in status made it necessary. I always hope to get back, but based on the past decade, I will be lucky to be able to find the time.
I have a personal web page at
sadly neglected and out of date, which I hope to revitalize someday...
Wiki Projects
[edit] | This user participates in WikiProject Physics. |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Spaceflight. |
 | This user is a member of the Astronomy WikiProject. |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Astronomical objects. |
 | This user is a member of WikiProject Space Colonization. |
Wikipedia interests
[edit]Some Wiki articles I have contributed to include
The works of Arthur C. Clarke, especially
- Orbit
- Wolf-Rayet star
- Rocket engine
- Space exploration
- HEAO Program
- HEAO 3
- GRO J1655-40
- Black hole
- Large Hadron Collider
- Safety of the Large Hadron Collider
- Eddington Luminosity
- L-shell
- Space colonization
- Milton W. Rosen
- Oreste Piccioni
- Wendell H. Furry
Pages I watch and likely have an interest in are (as of 11/18/2008):
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (film)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (novel)
- 2001 A Space Odyssey
- 2MASS
- 4U 1700-37
- Alex (parrot)
- Altair (spacecraft)
- Apollo program
- Arches Cluster
- Ares I
- Ares V
- Ariane 5
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Astronomical Netherlands Satellite
- Atomic number
- Balint Karosi
- Bell's theorem
- Benny Peiser
- Bevatron
- Black hole
- CCNet (network)
- Celestial mechanics
- Childhood's End
- Cl* 1806-20
- Constellation program
- Cosmic infrared background
- Counterfactual definiteness
- Cygnus X-1
- Cygnus X-3
- Dirac large numbers hypothesis
- E-Prime
- Earth Departure Stage
- Eddington luminosity
- Einstein Observatory
- Exploration Systems Architecture Study
- FSC15307+3253
- Faster-than-light
- Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Flyby anomaly
- GRO J1655-40
- GRS 1124-683
- GRS 1915+105
- GX 339-4
- Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
- Gamma-ray astronomy
- Gamma (satellite)
- Gamma ray spectrometer
- General relativity
- Granat
- Gravastar
- Gravity Probe B
- HEAO Program
- HEASARC
- Hadron
- Hawking radiation
- Henry Kolm
- Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere
- High Energy Astronomy Observatory
- High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1
- High Energy Astronomy Observatory 3
- High Energy Astrophysics Observatory
- Hubble Space Telescope
- IRAS
- Infrared Space Observatory
- Infrared astronomy
- International Space Station
- Interplanetary Flight: an introduction to astronautics
- Interpretations of 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Interstellar travel
- Interstellar travel and the Wait Calculation
- Introduction to general relativity
- Introduction to special relativity
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Developmental Ephemeris
- L-shell
- LBV 1806-20
- Large Hadron Collider
- Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
- Life
- Liquid rocket
- List of X-ray pulsars
- List of basic space exploration topics
- List of most luminous stars
- List of space telescopes
- Local hidden variable theory
- Lunar space elevator
- Many-worlds interpretation
- Matter
- Metric expansion of space
- Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets
- Minkowski diagram
- Near-Earth asteroid
- Near-Earth object
- Opacity (optics)
- Orbit
- Orbital mechanics
- Oreste Piccioni
- Orion (spacecraft)
- Orion abort modes
- PSR J0737-3039
- Particle accelerator
- Philosophical realism
- Phoenix (spacecraft)
- Photometry (astronomy)
- Photon
- Pioneer anomaly
- Potentially hazardous asteroid
- Principle of locality
- Project Constellation
- Project Vanguard
- Quantum field theory
- Quark
- Quasar
- Quintuplet cluster
- Resveratrol
- Rietdijk-Putnam argument
- Rocket engine
- SGR 1806-20
- Safety of particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider
- Safety of the Large Hadron Collider
- Saturn (rocket family)
- Shape of the Universe
- Solar power satellite
- Space Shuttle program
- Space colonization
- Space debris
- Space elevator
- Space elevator economics
- Space exploration
- Space solar power
- Special relativity
- Speed of gravity
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- Stellar black hole
- Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
- Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
- Strong
- Strong (relative detectability)
- Strong (source)
- Supermassive black hole
- Topic outline of space exploration
- Topical outline of space exploration
- Uhuru (satellite)
- Unruh effect
- Van Allen radiation belt
- Vanguard (rocket)
- Vanguard rocket
- Vela X-1
- Viking (rocket)
- Viking rocket
- WR 102ka
- Wendell H. Furry
- White hole
- Wolf-Rayet star
- Wormhole
- X-ray astronomy
- X-ray binary
- X-ray pulsar
- XTE J1650-500
Please understand that I know essentially nothing about many (or most!) of these.
Barnstars
[edit]AWARDS
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
| For helping out a n00b(me!) 11341134a (talk) 19:11, 13 March 2008 (UTC) |
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar | |
| For helping me out everytime. -- Extra999 (talk) 19:50, 3 November 2009 (UTC) |
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The Extra 999's Guestbook Barnstar | |
| This user has signed Extra 999's guestbook, and deserves this star. If you have not signed yet, be sure to sign. extra999 (talk) |
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Awesome Wikipedian Wwheaton has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Wwheaton's day! Keep up this work, |
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[edit]Test1 Asteroid table test formatting.
Test2 Symbols 4/3/2009
Test3 sockpuppets
Test4 Ref library for LHC safety
Test5 Ref library for Life -- Thermoeconomics aspects.
Test6 X-ray Astronomy table formatting experiments.
Test7 LHC purpose drafts