Congratulations, Han. Make sure your thesis is seen by the US press.
Regards Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 5:57 AM 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 | |
