Dear Han, Congratulations and best wishes.
Pat Naughtin CAMS Geelong, Australia on 2002-11-19 08.57, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 >
