Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Sunday, December 15, 2013

John G. Fletcher

I have set up an author page on Google Scholar for my stepfather, John G. Fletcher, who died last year.  He worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) from 1962 until he retired in 1993.  Although he had a PhD in Physics from Princeton (with a thesis on general relativity), at LLNL he soon moved to the computation department and most of his papers are in the field of Computer Science.  I used the Google Scholar clustering algorithm to generate the list of his papers.  It didn't work too well in his case, a fair number of the papers suggested obviously weren't by him and some papers were missed.  I removed the interlopers and added a couple of early general relativity papers.  However there may still be errors.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

James Welles Shearer

My father, James Welles Shearer, received a physics PhD from MIT around 1950.  Around 1958 he started working at what is now the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL).  He continued to work there until his death in 1984.  While there he wrote a number of scientific papers and technical reports. These were mostly about high magnetic fields and various aspects of proposals for controlled nuclear fusion.  He seems to have generally published as "JW Shearer".     

I have set up an author page for him on Google Scholar which lists his papers with citation counts. I relied on Google's clustering algorithm to generate the list of papers.  I didn't see any that obviously aren't his but there could be omissions.