Han: Let me be the first to congratulate you.
Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Han Maenen >Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 13:58 >To: U.S. Metric Association >Subject: [USMA:23466] Today I got my PhD grade > > >To all, > >Today (Monday) I got my PhD grade. The ceremony began at 15:30 MET and >lasted an hour. I had to defend my thesis before a 'tribunal' of >people from >different universities. >Members of my family, friends and colleagues from my work place, the >Nijmegen Public Records, in Dutch it is called Het Archief were there too. >This was a day in a person's life that is a climax. > >After the ceremony we had a dinner in a restaurant close by. One of my >coaches gave me a book that I had wanted to buy from Alapage on the >Internet, a Dutch translation of Denis Guedj, La Mesure du Monde. La >Meridienne, Paris 1987. I gave that coach, who was there when I reached the >first two levels, another coach who helped me to get to this PhD level, and >the professor, who is the official promoter, each a copy of >Louis's book, La >Grande Metrication and a bottle of French wine. > >No less than four newspapers in my country have shown interest in >my thesis. >A large article appeared in a national daily last Saturday, three other >newspapers will follow soon. This gave me a chance to strike a blow for the >cause of SI-metric against old metric and creepy crawly ifp. >It is hoped that other historians will take up the work and start research >in their own countries or areas. > >Han >Historian of Dutch Metrication, Nijmegen, The Netherlands >
