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Assistant professor or adjunct professor at U of Ottawa?
I'm glad to see an article on this scientist. I would like to see more detail about his experimental research on
electron impact ionization, which was the reason for the Herzberg medal and the other awards. This is more important than his later criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation and the Big Bang.
I was surprised to see him described as an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa in the 1990s when he was over 60, as this is normally the rank of a young professor starting his career. This is sourced to the About the author page of his Newton Physics website, which also quotes the Canadian Who's Who (French version) to say that he had already been a full professor (professeur titulaire) at Université Laval 1970-84 and an Agent de recherche senior at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 1984-91. Normally such an eminent scientist on moving to the Univerity of Ottawa would be either a full professor (if salaried) or an adjunct professor (if an unpaid visitor). In fact the
home page of the same website does describe him (at the bottom) as a Visiting Adjunct Professor. I think that one of the titles (assistant or adjunct) must be a mistranslation, related to the fact that the French professeur adjoint looks like adjunct professor but actually means assistant professor. I suggest we follow the home page.
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Assistant professor or adjunct professor at U of Ottawa?
I'm glad to see an article on this scientist. I would like to see more detail about his experimental research on
electron impact ionization, which was the reason for the Herzberg medal and the other awards. This is more important than his later criticism of the Copenhagen interpretation and the Big Bang.
I was surprised to see him described as an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa in the 1990s when he was over 60, as this is normally the rank of a young professor starting his career. This is sourced to the About the author page of his Newton Physics website, which also quotes the Canadian Who's Who (French version) to say that he had already been a full professor (professeur titulaire) at Université Laval 1970-84 and an Agent de recherche senior at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics 1984-91. Normally such an eminent scientist on moving to the Univerity of Ottawa would be either a full professor (if salaried) or an adjunct professor (if an unpaid visitor). In fact the
home page of the same website does describe him (at the bottom) as a Visiting Adjunct Professor. I think that one of the titles (assistant or adjunct) must be a mistranslation, related to the fact that the French professeur adjoint looks like adjunct professor but actually means assistant professor. I suggest we follow the home page.
Dirac66 (
talk)
21:31, 1 March 2013 (UTC)reply