[ RadSafe ] SI Units

[Franz Schönhofer]

Sorry, to be that cruel, but in this case the person you describe was an
idiot. Hopefully there were not many more at that time and in our time.
Hopefully that after he quit or retired there was somebody more qualified.
Did that happen in Austria - I would not be surprised, because we have more
than enough similar cases here.........

Franz




2007/1/19, Don Jordan <DonJordan at ramservicesinc.com>:
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> In the mid 1970's my research advisor & some colleagues wrote a Physical
> Chemistry text book, supposedly for college juniors but most 1st year grad
> students would have had difficulty with it (Actually, it started out as a
> freshman tex!).  Since SI was all the rage the authors all made a
> determined
> effort to write the book entirely in SI.
>
> I was asked to work out the standard correct (?) answers to the problems
> for
> several chapters & discovered that my advisor didn't actually have a clue
> as
> to the relative magnitudes of the 2 systems.  For example, I recall one
> mass
> spectrometry problem that posed a magnetic field of 10,000 tesla.  Not on
> this planet!
>
> My advisor held a named professorship at a major research university and
> was
> a member of the National Academy.  If he had trouble with conversions,
> then
> I do worry about the guys in the control room of an NPP & tend to agree
> with
> Sandy Perle's position:  this would be a gradual change from driving on
> the
> right side to the left side of the road.
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> Since we have to change eventually, maybe we should start with the next
> new
> plant to be built.
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> Don Jordan
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