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Homer Neal 1942-2018
“Homer was a very kind man who was passionate about physics,” said 2018 APS President Roger Falcone. “He was tireless in expanding participation and connecting scientists globally, and extremely thoughtful about any activity he undertook, including his leadership of the American Physical Society. It was an honor and pleasure to work with him.”
Neal received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Indiana University in 1961 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1966. From 1976 to 1981 he was Dean for Research and Graduate Development at Indiana University, and Provost at Stony Brook University from 1981 to 1986. From 1987 to 1993 he was Chair of the physics department at the University of Michigan.
His area of research was experimental particle physics. He was part of the D0 Collaboration at Fermilab that discovered the top quark in 1995. From 2000 to 2015 he was director of the University of Michigan team that collaborated at CERN on the ATLAS experiment, which participated in the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012.
“Homer Neal was a remarkable man,” said APS CEO Kate Kirby. “His influence was felt well beyond the physics community, which was his home. APS is extremely fortunate to have benefited from his wise and steadfast leadership, and I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to work with him. I will miss him profoundly.”
In addition to his scientific research, Neal was widely involved in science policy and served on numerous advisory boards. He was a member of the board of directors of the Ford Motor Company and was a Director of the Lounsbery Foundation. Neal was a member of the Council for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C., and has served as a member of the U.S. National Research Council Board on Physics and Astronomy. Before becoming APS President in 2016, he served as a member of the APS Panel on Public Affairs. Neal authored a textbook on science policy (“Beyond Sputnik”) which is being used in courses at several institutions.
While on the U.
S. National Science Board, he chaired the committee that produced the board's first comprehensive report on undergraduate science education. A result of that study is the Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU), and the Research Experience for Teachers Program (RET) now flourishing today. He also served as Chair of the Physics Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation. Neal offered testimony on numerous occasions to Congress, on matters ranging from the funding of national laboratories to the state of science education.
“I knew Homer for many years during his service to the community — first on the Board on Physics and Astronomy at the U.S. National Academies,” said APS Past President Laura Greene. “More recently we worked quite closely in the APS presidential line — he preceded me as Past President. Homer was continually brilliant and compassionate — always giving a great deal of consideration for every issue; he never failed to provide an astounding jewel of insight and understanding.
His tireless and effective work to provide research experiences to undergraduates was always impressive. Homer was always an inspiration to me, and I will sorely miss him.”
Homer Neal spoke from personal experience about diversity and inclusion. In an interview with APS News, he recalled growing up in segregated Franklin, Kentucky in the 1950s. He and a friend who was white had developed an interest in amateur radio but because Neal was black, they were pressured by the town’s residents to break off the friendship. “We were both astounded, and agreed to stop our communications,” Neal said. “But it did teach me that basically when individuals are working on a scientific project together, the color of one’s skin doesn’t matter. It mattered to others, but it didn’t matter to us.”
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Homer A. Neal, Ph.D., prominent high-energy physicist, educator, and leader in higher education passed away on May 23, 2018. Dr. Neal was interim president emeritus, vice president emeritus for research, Samuel A.
Goudsmit Distinguished University Professor of Physics, and professor of physics in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Professor Neal had a long, distinguished career and was a world-leading expert in the studies of particle spin and polarization. He pursued his research at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab, and for the past 20 years at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1987, on returning to Michigan to lead the Physics Department, Professor Neal established a research group that joined the DZero experiment at Fermilab. His group played key roles in the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab, and his contributions also included the discoveries of the Ξb and Ωb baryons. As the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator program wound down, his attention turned to the world’s next major high-energy accelerator – the Large Hadron Collider or LHC - at CERN. Professor Neal led a group of Michigan faculty to join the ATLAS Experiment, and under his leadership, the group blossomed into one of the largest and most productive university groups working at the LHC.
With his colleagues, he made critical contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson. He was also a pioneer in the development of tools for shared data in large collaborations and led the initial design of the computing architecture of the ATLAS Experiment.
"Homer Neal was a legend as a scientist and as a leader at the University of Michigan," said Andrew D. Martin, Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. "Throughout his career, he stood on the cutting edge of physics, but we will miss him just as much as a colleague and friend who made U-M a better place."
In addition to his scientific and academic leadership roles, Professor Neal served as President of the American Physical Society, board member of the Ford Motor Company, council member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, director of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution and on the National Science Board (NSB). As a member of the NSB he played a pivotal role in establishing the widely popular and effective Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.
At Michigan, he initiated and coordinated the flourishing CERN REU program for U.S. students to participate in cutting-edge research at CERN every summer and developed a seminar in science policy that led to the textbook Beyond Sputnik, which he co-authored, and which is being widely used.
University of Michigan President Mark S. Schlissel, recognizing Professor Neal’s many contributions, said, “Our society and our university have been made better by Homer Neal's achievements as a preeminent scholar and leader. Dr. Neal championed the idea that U-M should engage our academic mission beyond the borders of our campus, and our students and the communities we serve continue to see the benefits of his vision today. I am also very appreciative of Dr. Neal's passion for fostering undergraduate participation in research and his willingness to step forward and serve our campus community with distinction."
Professor Neal was a recipient of a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, the Stony Brook Medal, and the Indiana University Distinguished Alumni Service Award.
He was a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the AAAS, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Indiana University, Notre Dame University and Michigan State University.
Professor Neal had an impact on the lives of many individuals, on science, and on the development of many thriving institutions. In spite of the major responsibilities he assumed in his various positions, his interactions with people were at a very personal level and seemed to always leave individuals feeling more engaged and part of the bigger picture for having had the discussion. He had an ability to help solve major problems by getting people to see what they shared in common. He was an outstanding scholar and colleague. We will all miss his presence and human insight greatly.
Funeral services took place on Tuesday, May 29 at 12:00 p.m. at the Carpenter Road Chapel; visitation was 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m the same day.
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Homer in Russia: translations and illustrations
I hear the silent sound of the divine Hellenic speech; I feel the shadow of the great old man in my confused soul.These Pushkin lines come to mind to anyone who opens a volume of the Iliad.
The first mentions of Homer could be found by the Old Russian reader in hagiographic literature of Byzantine origin. Lomonosov presented in his "Short Guide to Eloquence" the first in Russian poetic translations of fragments of the Iliad as examples illustrating the provisions of rhetoric. Homer gained wide popularity among the Russian reading public at the end of the 18th century, when two prose parts of Omir's Creations by Pyotr Yekimov appeared, as well as a translation of the first nine songs by Yermila Kostrov written in iambic six-foot.
The translation made by Nikol Ivanovich Gnedich, librarian of the Imperial Public Library, is recognized as a classic, having withstood many reprints (the first edition of 1829 is presented at the exhibition).He is also the author of the poem "The Birth of Omer". Experts note that his translation by hexameter is characterized by accuracy in the transfer of the Homeric speech system, historical accuracy. At the end of the 19th century, the Iliad was translated by one of the main ideologists of Russian decadence and symbolism, Nikolai Minsky, in the 40s. 20th century - writer and doctor Vikenty Veresaev, who also translated the second epic Homeric poem - "The Odyssey".
The most famous poetic translation of the Odyssey, of course, belongs to Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky, who considered this work the pinnacle of his translation work. In addition, the exhibition also features a poetic translation by Sverdlovsk University Professor Pavel Shuisky 1948, and a prose translation by Ivan Martynov 1826-27.
Another presented prose translation of "The Odyssey, or the Wanderings of Ulysses" of 1815, according to the indication on the title page, was made by the secretary of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Pyotr Sokolov. However, the author of the monograph "Homer in Russian translations of the 18th-19th centuries" A.N. Egunov, analyzing the stylistic features of the translation, comes to the conclusion that the real author of this translation was the above-mentioned Peter Ekimov, while Sokolov only performed the work of the editor. Another librarian of the Public Library, I.A. Krylov (an excerpt is given in the book "The Life and Works of Ivan Andreevich Krylov" by his colleague, Academician Mikhail Lobanov).
The exposition also features the most interesting illustrations of Homer's poems for more than two hundred years, during which Homer has been read and loved in Russia. One of the oldest known images of Homer in Rus' is a fresco in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, representing Homer among the "Greek wise men".
In the 19th century, the editions of the Iliad and the Odyssey, published in Russia, were accompanied by reproductions of drawings by foreign graphic artists - the Englishman John Flaxman, the German Friedrich Preller. Also at the exhibition is a copy of the portrait of the seven heroes of the Iliad, made by the first Russian professor of engraving, academician Nikolai Utkin. In the 20th century, the Iliad was illustrated by Favorsky's student Mikhail Pikov, and the Odyssey was illustrated by the well-known book graphic artist Gennady Epifanov. No less rich is the history of understanding Homer's poems by means of easel painting: Anton Losenko, the author of the famous painting "The Farewell of Hector and Andromache", artists Alexander Ivanov, Nikolai Ge, Valentin Serov painted their canvases on various subjects of the great blind man.
Comparing different versions of translations and illustrations, you can find your Homer. For, as the poet-sentimentalist Mikhail Nikitich Muravyov said, "twenty centuries have passed over the face of the earth, and I find that the innermost feelings of my heart are as much alive in the works of Homer, as if they occur in myself.
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The Nile is one of the longest rivers on the planet. It flows through East Africa. The source is located in the East African plateau. Carries the waters of the Nile to the Mediterranean Sea. At the confluence, a large delta is formed. Despite the fact that there are few tributaries, the river has a large basin, since the Nile is considered the second longest.
The area from which all the water flows into one river is called a river basin.
Nile Basin
The Nile is considered a transit river. She and her tributaries cross several states: Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia.
Rice. 1. A fragment of a map of Africa with the Nile River.The Nile is the only river that flows through the great desert and does not dry up. The White Nile originates in the equatorial belt, where it rains all year round and feeds the river.
The area of the river basin is 2.87 million square kilometers. km. Such a vast territory is located in four climatic zones. The basin in the upper and middle reaches is within the boundaries of the equatorial and subequatorial belts. In the first zone, precipitation falls constantly, in the second there are two seasons of the year: wet and dry.
There is a lot of precipitation in the upper reaches, 1000 mm and more. There are zones of humid and variable-humid forests. Magnolias, palm trees, ficuses, bamboo, camphor, tulip trees and others grow on black, red and red-brown soils.
When moving north, the amount of precipitation decreases to 250 mm per year. Forests are replaced by a zone of savannahs and light forests. Palm trees, umbrella acacias, doum palm trees grow. There is an abundance of herbaceous plants.
In its lower reaches, the Nile crosses the Sahara Desert. Precipitation here is minimal, less than 100 mm. The soils are brown desert. 90% of the area is occupied by rocky and sandy deserts with occasional oases. Date palms are grown on their territory.
The river delta is located within the subtropical zone, in the zone of semi-deserts and deserts. This territory of the Nile is the oldest center of world agriculture.
The geographers of ancient Greece called the mouth of the Nile River delta for its resemblance to a Greek letter. Now such mouths of all rivers are called deltas.
Economic activity
The Nile Delta is the oldest center of world agriculture. Along the entire Nile Valley are areas of irrigated agriculture.
