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Acceptance of the R.A.F. Penrose Gold Medal for 2004

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Thank you sincerely, Poul, for your citation, and I have many others to thank for their assistance in my work. Firstly, thanks to you and all my students, both graduate and undergraduate, at the University of Western Ontario and Colorado School of Mines for their tolerance of, and interest in a sometimes overly enthusiastic espousal of my controversial ideas. I have learned more from their ensuing studies than I could then have thought possible. I am immensely proud of that result; it is a teacher’s highest award.

Secondly, I have been hugely fortunate in supportive and knowledgeable instructors, colleagues and associates: Gordon Suffel, Bob Hodder, and Bill Fyfe at UWO; Gene Cameron, a former Penrose Awardee who supervised my graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin; Sam Adams, Graham Closs, and Sam Romberger at CSM, amongst others; and many distinguished colleagues throughout the world who have assisted significantly and cooperated in my work, especially Des Pretorius and his co-workers Carl Anhaeusser, Lawrie Minter, and Richard and . . . [Full Text of this Article]