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LFHCfS

LFHCfS: Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™, Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists™, Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists™

The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). For scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair
The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). For scientists who have a luxuriant head of former hair
The Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). For scientists who have luxuriant flowing facial hair

Dr. Diane DiMassa is a member. (Click on image for enlargement)

These are conjoined triplet clubs — Members of each club are accorded full honorary privileges of the other.

THE MEMBERS — photos and biographies

Earliest members (joined prior to 2006): gallery 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Men and Women of the Year
Historical Honorary Members

HOW TO JOIN
Clubs history
Public admiration

How to Join the Club

To propose yourself for membership in either club, please email:

Drs. Schuch, Linsner, and Jung are members. (Click image for enlargement, or here for an alternate view)

a photograph (or a URL that points to a photograph) in which the luxuriant, flowing hair or luxuriant head of former hair is CLEARLY evident.
a URL pointing to your credentials as a scientist.
a pithy statement and identifying info, written in standard LFHCfS format (see any recent club entry for an example of this).

Please send the nomination to: LUXURIANT HAIR CLUB <marca AT improbable.com>.
You may nominate someone other than yourself, provided that the person meets the qualifications and that you have first obtained that person's enthusiastic consent.

NOTE: Each new member is entitled, should he or she request it, to a free issue of the Annals of Improbable Research.

History of the Clubs

The 2004 Ig Nobel Tour of the UK and Ireland included appearances by LFHCfS members and their hair — and also a contest to choose the Science Barnet of the year. (Click on image for enlargement)

The project was first announced in February 2001, in that month's issue of the mini-AIR newsletter. The initial list of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists members, assembled by a subcommittee comprised of seven members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, was meant as a nucleating seed, from which a larger list could grow. The first member, chosen by acclamation, was psychologist Steven Pinker, whose hair has long been the object of admiration, and envy, and intense study. From that lone, Pinkerian seed, there has grown a spreading chestnut, black, blond, and red-haired membership tree. Beginning in 2006, each new member has been announced on the Improbable Research blog. The Luxuriant Former Hair Club for Scientists was founded in January 2010. The Luxuriant Facial Hair Club for Scientists was founded in May 2010.

Public Admiration

The public loves to see and applaud scientists who have luxuriant flowing hair or a luxuriant head of former hair. Therefore, all LFHCfS members who come to Improbable Research events are invited to take a bow, allowing the audience to shower them and their hair with applause.