Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists 이란 클럽이 있답니다.
이름 그대로 치렁치렁한 머리의 과학자 클럽.
길고 풍성하게 물결치는 헤어스타일의 과학자들이 여기 자격이 있다고 합니다.
우리가 익히 책에서 보아온 멘델레예프, 아이작 뉴튼의 머리를 생각하시면 됩니다.
원래 천문학 전공인 Dr. Brian May. 물론 퀸 활동으로 박사논문을 완성 못 하였지만
그의 진지하고 오랜 천문학에 대한 탐구심은 그를 이 클럽에서 인정받기에도 충분하다는
이야기네요.
퀸의 기타리스 브라이언 메이도 이미 2003년 여기에 노미네이트되고
회원으로도 인정받아 올라와 있네요.
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브라이언 메이 나온 페이지
http://www.improb.com/projects/hair/hair-club001.html
Brian May is a member
MAY
Brian May, LFHCfS
Astronomer and Rock Star
Formerly of Imperial College London
Queen
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"I nominate Brian May, the lead guitarist of the rock group Queen, for membership of LFHCfS. He studied for a Ph.D. in Infrared Astronomy at Imperial College, London but was unable to complete his thesis due to the competing demands of being a rock star. I refer the reader to his scientific publications list at http://www.pemcom.demon.co.uk/queen/physics.html."
(Nominated by investigator Philip G.P. Welch, LFHCfS)
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| Brian May from the rock group 'Queen' has lent his support to this initiative. As an enthusiastic astronomer and performer with integrity, he is an excellent choice of role model for the students. |
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QUEEN'S LEGENDARY GUITARIST BRIAN MAY HAS A LIFE LONG PASSION FOR ASTRONOMY.
Rating scientists: Brains, yes, but what about their hair?
By Austin Fido
Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki, Ig Nobel Prize Laureate for his study of belly button fluff, has neither luxuriant nor flowing hair. The Julius Summer Miller Fellow in the physics department of the University of Sydney, notes that "physicists tend to be bald." (Courtesy of Karin Catt)
Dmitri Mendeleev (1834-1907), inventor of the periodic table of the elements and historical honorary member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Believed to have had his hair cut once a year. (Courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) made seminal contributions to the fields of astronomy, mathematics and physics. His flowing silver hair is honored by a posthumous membership of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. (Courtesy AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection)
It started with a dream.
One morning in 2001, Robin Abrahams, now a psychologist and the author of The Boston Globe’s “Miss Conduct” column, woke up from a vivid dream. She had been asked to edit a special issue of a psychology journal, but there was a catch: She had to make sure every article made mention of Steven Pinker’s luxuriant, flowing hair.
Pinker, who is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, is a man of many accomplishments. The author of six books, including “The Language Instinct” and “The Blank Slate,” he has been honored several times for his research on language and cognition. One of his less celebrated achievements is his role as the inspiration for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists is an international association predicated on a single, simple observation: “The public loves to see and applaud scientists who have luxuriant flowing hair.”
The club owes its name to a passage in Pinker’s book “How The Mind Works”: “Luxuriant hair is always pleasing, possibly because it shows not only current health but a reecord of health in the years before.” Pinker has won applause for his own coiffure: On the Web site mulletlovers.com, he is the face of the “stud mullet.”
The LFHCfS is run by the “Annals of Improbable Research,” a journal devoted to highlighting scientific achievement that “makes people laugh, and then makes them think.” Marc Abrahams, Robin's husband, is the journal’s editor and the principal administrator of the hair club. He thinks the club is a good fit with other AIR-sponsored activities, which include the Ig Nobel Prizes, annual awards celebrating scientific research that may or may not have its tongue in its cheek. “When you first hear about the club, most people do laugh, and I don’t think you can help but think about it for a good long time,” Abrahams said.
Membership criteria are simple, but exacting: A prospective member must supply a photograph “in which the luxuriant, flowing hair is CLEARLY evident,” as well as possess scientific credentials. The club’s membership runs the gamut of scientific achievement: from graduate students to tenured professors to Queen guitarist Brian May, who failed to complete his Ph.D. thesis in infrared astronomy because of “the competing demands of being a rock star.”
May, who is writing a book on the origins of the universe, was nominated for membership by a third party.
“Brian is honored," Phil Symes, a spokesman for May, said in an e-mail message. "But being the modest chap that he is, he is keeping quiet about it.”
The club has few barriers to entry--there are no membership fees, no meetings to attend, no requirements at all in fact other than a career in science and a remarkable head of hair. That does not mean the organization is without standards: “Astrologers probably wouldn’t make it,” Abrahams said. So that rules out Rasputin.
“Historical honorary members,” those scientists whose lives were not blessed by the presence of an organization to honor their follicular achievements, include Albert Einstein--“Physicist. Bon vivant. A bold experimentalist with hair.” The inventor of the periodic table, Dimitry Mendeleyev, is cited as “A man of many interests, liberal and enterprising. Nice hair.”
Each year, the club honors a man and woman of the year-?last year, there were joint honorees in each category. Elisabeth, Johanna and Laurel Bobrow, sisters and scientists, were the 2004-2005 Women of the Year. Collectively, they boast more than 7 feet of hair. Four feet of that hair, almost touching her knees and currently dark blue, belongs to Johanna Bobrow, 29, a biologist at MIT. “It amuses me,” she wrote in an e-mail message, explaining her thoughts on the club. “I like the fact that it lets scientists show a silly side.”
She is proud of her silly side. After receiving her award, she was offered a makeover by the "Martha Stewart Living" show. She declined.
Dr. Steve B. Howell, 50, is an astronomer at the WIYN Observatory in Tucson, Ariz. His shoulder-length gray hair compares favorably with the Pinker stud mullet. Howell has found practical advantages to luxuriant hair: “Working with telescopes, you could be observing all night. It gets cold. Long hair keeps you warm.”
Howell is mindful of the potential for tragedy lurking in the combination of the gears of a telescope and flowing tresses, but he has had “hair longer than the people I’ve been around since I was 9 years old,” he said. He also confesses to a partiality to the company of fellow devotees of luxuriant hair: “I’ve always liked people with long hair,” he said, “and I guess I like myself as well.”
Abrahams has been petitioned by a number of “triumphantly bald” scientists to start a club for those who are less follicly prolific. Those plans have foundered because of the difficulty of finding a suitable name. Abrahams is open to suggestions that are “as admirably evocative as the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.”
Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki won the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize for Interdisciplinary Research for his work on “belly button fluff and why it’s almost always blue.” He does not have luxuriant or flowing hair: “I neither support nor stand against it. I acknowledge that people have chosen it as a lifestyle. I have chosen a different lifestyle, largely due to my advancing age and lack of hair.”
The Julius Sumner Miller Fellow in the physics department at the University of Sydney, Kruszelnicki does applaud the LFHCfS for countering what he sees as the traditional image of the scientist as “mad, totally bald except for two tufts of hair and having an insane desire to take over the world.”
The club is still far from attaining world domination. The membership is geographically widespread and numbers about 300. Abrahams has noted an increase in applications over recent months, but he is unconcerned by questions of growth. To him the LFHCfS is “like hair, it’s always there, it’s usually growing.”
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