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Members of Long Standing (and long hair) -- Gallery 2
(Most of these members joined in 2001-2003)

These are some Members-in-Good-Hair of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.
(NOTE: Some entries include comments; these were supplied by the LFHCfS member or by the person or organization who or which nominated her or him.)

IRVING
"As a geologist, I know that luxuriant flowing hair has a practical function as an insulator on those windy exposures."
Duncan Irving, LFHCfS
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rock Deformation Lab
Dept. of Earth Sciences
University of Manchester, UK
<Duncan Irving>

HAMILTON
"My grad students and friends keep pestering me to join (I won't give them permission to nominate me), so here you go."
Michael Hamilton, LFHCfS
(1) Resident Reserve Director
James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve
University of California, Natural Reserve System
(2) Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
University of California, Riverside
<Michael Hamilton>

PAPPALARDO
Robert Pappalardo, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Boulder, Colorado
<Robert Pappalardo>
"I wish to nominate Dr. Robert "Bob" Pappalardo for membership. I am proud to state that I have known Bob for many years, and have watched him grow into the ideal LHFCfS candidate in every way. His follicular and scientific achievements are far beyond reproach.."
(Nominated by investigator Jonathan Jacobs)

ARMSTRONG
"Although I haven't always had long hair, my current hair length, quality, and quantity almost definitely qualifies me for the LFHCfS."
Don Armstrong
Graduate Student
Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology program
University of California, Riverside
<Don Armstrong>

URETSKY
"I wish to offer myself for membership."
Josh Uretsky
Graduate Student in Biophysics
University of York, United Kingdom
<Josh Uretsky>

MALOTKY
Dave Malotky, LFHCfS
Senior research engineer
Dow Chemical
Midland, Michigan
<Dave Malotky>
"I would like to nominate my friend Dave Malotky. Not only does he have luxuriant, flowing hair, but he makes ingredients for the personal care industry to help maintain luxuriant flowing hair at the appropriate levels of luxury and flow. Here is a picture of Dave's luxurious flowing hair, and incidentally, his wallet. This is a link to a Lehigh University degree announcement. Scroll down to the January 2002 Degrees for another (though poor) picture of the hair."
(Nominated by investigator Stephen L. Cain)

FARRIS
David Farris, LFHCfS
Graduate student in mathematics
University of California Berkeley
<David Farris>
"I nominate my husband, David Farris, for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. David is a Harvard alum and a graduate student in mathematics at UC Berkeley. He has had luxuriant flowing hair since 2000."
(Nominated by investigator Kirsten Chevalier)

AMENTA
Nina Amenta, LFHCfS
Professor of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
<Nina Amenta>
"I would like to nominate several of my esteemed scientific colleagues for membership in your prestigious society, both for the disgustingly high quality of their scientific work and the enviably luxuriant fluidity of their hair."
(Nominated by investigator Jeff Erickson)

DEMAINE
Erik Demaine, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
<http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~edemaine/>
(Nominated by investigator Jeff Erickson)

ASPELMEIER
Jeffery Aspelmeier, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Radford University
Radford, Virginia
<http://www.radford.edu/~psyc-web/faculty/aspelmeierbio.htm>
"I nominate my colleague in the Psychology Department: Jeffery Aspelmeier (note that Jeffery is spelled strangely, and Aspelmeier is just strange)."
(Submitted by Don Hall)

BENETATOS
Panayotis Benetatos, LFHCfS
Department of Physics
Harvard University
<http://www.phy.syr.edu/calendar/picnic/Untitled-24.jpg>
"As proof that Dr. Benetatos has LFH, I point you to ths URL (actually all three men in the photo are physicists and potential candidates -- Dr. Benetatos is the leftmost one)."
(Submitted by investigator Shantenu Jha)

BERKELEY
Ishy Berkeley, LFHCfS
Institute of Cognitive Science
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
<http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~isb9112>
(Submitted by investigators Jeff Pelletier, Barbara Abbott, and Larry Horn)

BOISELLIER
Brigitte Boisselier, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Director of Research
Clonaid
Undisclosed location
<http://www.clonaid.com/english/pages/history.html>
<http://www.rael.org/int/press_site/full_screen_photo/brigitte_boisselier.jpg>
(Nominated by M. Fox)

BREITHAUPT
Brent H. Breithaupt, LFHCfS
Director of the Geology Museum
University of Wyoming in Laramie
"I have scoured the Web for minutes trying to locate a suitable photograph of him (I have several hard copies), but the best I've come upon is at: <http://www.uwyo.edu/LEGAL/GeoMuseum/trex.htm> I know for a fact that the upcoming spring 2001 issue of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin (#180, currently at press) will have a photo of him on page 58 (I'm managing editor of the Bulletin -- that's how I know)"
(Submitted by investigator Mary Ann Schmidt)

BOOZER
David Boozer
Graduate Student
Caltech
<http://www.its.caltech.edu/~boozer/>
"I would like to nominate Dave Boozer. I found his personal web page while doing some character research for a screenplay."
(Submitted by investigator Sam Jennings)

BÜRING
Daniel Büring, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor in Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles
<http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/buring/>
"Daniel Büring, a formal semanticist currently on the faculty of the Linguistics Department at UCLA. I just co-occurred with Professor Büring at a conference in Berlin, and was reminded of his eminent qualifications, which only partially come through in the picture (clickable for an enlargement) of him mixing a gin and tonic at his web site. (There's also another somewhat mysterious picture of him at the bottom of the web page drawn by his seven-year-old niece.)"
(Submitted by investigator Larry Horn)

CAMERON
Colin Cameron, LFHCfS
Electrochemist
Defence Research and Development Canada
Halifax, Canada
<http://mmrc.caltech.edu/colin/gallery/sf/bounce/small_2204.jpg>
<http://mmrc.caltech.edu/colin/about/index.html>
"I would like to nominate my collegue and friend Dr. Colin Cameron for membership in the LFHCfS. He claims to not have cut his hair since the 80's."
(Nominated by investigator Royale Underhill)

CANELLI
Florencia Canelli, LFHCfS
Graduate Student in Physics, University of Rochester
Researcher, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
<http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~canelli/>
"Florencia, our favorite Italian-Argentinian female graduate student on Dzero at the Fermilab Tevatron, MUST be included in the LFH club. And her curly locks are indeed natural!"
(Submitted by her Fermilab colleagues)

CASH
"Like Pinker, Chalmers, and Berkeley, I'm also a Cognitive Science type."
Mason Cash, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
<http://www.cas.ucf.edu/philosophy/content_faculty/cash.html>
(Submitted by investigators Jeff Pelletier, Barbara Abbott, and Larry Horn)

CEDERWALL
Martin Cederwall, LFHCfS
Professor of Physics
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
<http://www.chalmers.se/Nyheter/2001/vecka09/erlanderpris.html>
"Martin Cederwall is a professor at Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (both in Gothenburg, Sweden) in the area theoretical physics, with the super string theory as his main interest. Doesn't he make your pitiful american LFHs look like skinheads in comparison?"
(Submitted by investigator Torbjorn Karfunkel)

CHALMERS
David Chalmers, LFHCfS
Philosophy Department
University of Arizona
<http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/>
<http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/pics/cornell.html>
"Note that, like Pinker, David Chalmers is a cognitive scientist. I surmise that there is a signficant generalization to be gleaned here: clearly, these gentlemen and scholars are particularly concerned to keep their respective crania warm."
(Submitted by investigators Barbara Abbott and Larry Horn, and supplemented by Gerry Lewin)

COTTERELL
Philip Cotterell, LFHCfS
Lecturer
Cybernetics Department
Reading University
"I nominate Philip Cotterell, lecturer on cybernetics at Reading University (UK) -- his hair is longer than this on occasions but at the time of the photo had been sheared for a wedding. He is the one on the left.."
<http://www.bouncing.dabsol.co.uk/gallery/sets/neilmarywed/previewpages/previewpage3.htm>
(Submitted by Joanna McCormac)

COOPER
S. Barry Cooper
Professor of Mathematical Logic
University of Leeds
<http://www.amsta.leeds.ac.uk/pure/staff/cooper/cooper.html>
"I would like to propose Professor S. Barry Cooper of Leeds University to membership of your Society. It's over 30 years since I've seen the flowing hair in person but the evidence is clearly shown on his website"
(Submitted by investigator Nancy Boston)

COREY
Vicka Corey, LFHCfS
Instructor in Neuroscience
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
<http://cub.andor.org/vicka>
"I nominate my friend Vicka Corey, Ph.D. her hair has a near-independent existence and a name, along with wonderful length and volume."
(Nominated by investigator Claudia Mastroianni)

COSTELLO
R. Dean Costello, LFHCfS
Biochemist
CDM Federal Programs Corporation
"I would lke to nominate a biochemist who works in environmental remediation, whom, I feel, qualifies for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists if we include great big fluffy heads w/beards such as belong to some of the current members. His hair doesn't flow, per se, but grows out and up in little horns and swirls."
<http://home.earthlink.net/~costello/image.html>
(Submitted by Christina Miller)

DAVIES, S.G
S.G. Davies, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Oxford
<http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/sgdavies.html>
(Nominated by investigator Evelyn Harvey and colleagues)

DAVIES, WILLIAM
"After I became a member of this august community, it was suggested to me that you may need another photo. Here is a photo."
William Davies, LFHCfS
Professor and DEO
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
<http://www.uiowa.edu/~linguist/faculty/davies/>
"I nominate William Davies to this club. I have known him for many years and he has always had LFH. As a linguist, his membership category is the same as that of B¦ring, Pinker, and Richards."
(Submitted by investigator Stanley Dubinsky)

DAVIES, STEVE
Steve Davies, LFHCfS
Professor of Chemistry
Oxford University
<http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/sgdavies.html>
(Submitted by investigator Martin Bell)

DiMASSA
"I understand that Andrew Bennett has nominated me for the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. I accept this nomination. I just spent over 5 weeks in a tent in Antarctica and boy was my hair a mess after no showers!"
Diane E. DiMassa, LFHCfS
Professor of Marine Engineering
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
(Nominated by investigator Andrew Bennett)

ELLIS
John Ellis, LFHCfS
Theory Division
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
"A picture of him and what is left of his hair can be found here:
<http://www.hep.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/mumu/cern091798.html>
(John Ellis sits in the middle)."
(Submitted by investigator David Lindelof)

ENGEL
"I am also an amateur scientist with interest in a variety of fields. As such I have published two orchid-related papers, and run the Men's Long Hair Site (http://the-light.com/mens/longhair.html).
Victor S. Engel, LFHCfS
Computer Scientist
Comsys, Inc.
<http://the-light.com/Victor/victor.html>

FAVALE
Katie Favale, LFHCfS
Research Associate
Argonne National Lab
Argonne Illinois
<http://www.imca.aps.anl.gov/Header_menu/staff.html>
"I nominate my science-friend, Katie. She works at at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory. She'd hardcore science and Luxuriant Flowing Hair all in one."
(Nominated by investigator Dan Lutger)

FENNEMA
Bud Fennema, LFHCfS
Department Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Accounting
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
<http://www.cob.fsu.edu/facstaff/display.Info.asp?personID=7>
"I am hopeful that Dr. Fennema will help the the LHCfS recover from the recent, tragic loss-because-of-haircut of Dr. Mussweiler. I think that Dr. Fennema would be the first distinguished member to have a PhD in accountancy."
(Nominated by Noel Brewer)

FLETCHER
"I am surprised and delighted to find that I have been accepted into one of the world's most exclusive scientific clubs. This means I can add M.L.F.H.C.f.S. after my name. By the way, I last shaved in January 1972, not 1973 as reported by my nominator Leigh Pilkington. As a point of interest, here is a photo of Leigh to show why he may have wanted to nominate somebody else to this august group rather than himself."
Murray Fletcher, LFHCfS
Senior Research Scientist
Director of the Collections
Orange Agricultural Institute
Orange, New South Wales, Australia
<http://www.agric.nsw.gov.au/Hort/ascu/staff/murray.htm>
"I would like to nominate Dr Murray Fletcher here in Australia. Whilst he has cut off his pony tail, I thought his long flowing beard might qualify him for consideration. Interestingly his beard is older than a lot of postgraduates at our Uni (last shave was 1973) and his son's mother had to show him how to shave when he came of age because Murray had no idea."
(Nominated by Leigh J. Pilkington)

FORSMAN
Robert H. Forsman, Jr., LFHCfS
Chief Scientist for Incanta
<http://www.purplefrog.com/~thoth/>
(Submitted by investigator David Nicol)

GATES
S.J. Gates, LFHCfS
John S. Toll Professor of Physics
University of Maryland
<http://www.superstringtheory.com/people/gifs/jgates.jpg> and <http://www.inform.umd.edu/CampusInfo/Departments/InstAdv/UnivPub/CPMAG/summer98/gates.jpg>
"This qualifies as luxuriant, if not flowing."
(Submitted by investigator Didier A Depireux)

GAVRIN
Andrew D. Gavrin, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Physics
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI).
<http://webphysics.iupui.edu/adg/adg_mainpage.html>
"I have the deep honor to nominate for membership in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists the respected Dr. Andrew D. Gavrin. One look at his photo explains all."
(Submitted by Richard Kahane)

GILLESPIE
Jason Gillespie, LFHCfS
Graduate Student
Department of Archaeology
University of Calgary
"While I recognize that Jason is a social scientist and so is not a 'real'scientist,' archeology is on the harder end of that spectrum."
(Submitted by David Spencer)

GLASS
Darren Glass, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Columbia University
New York City
<http://www.math.columbia.edu/~glass/>
"I'd like to nominate Steve Sigur, who teaches math and science at the Paideia School in Atlanta, GA, and Darren Glass, one of his former students who is now a professor of mathematics at Columbia.  Both of these men have wonderful minds and even more delightful personalities,"
(Submitted by investigator Beverly Love)

GREENBERG
Philip D. Greenberg, LFHCfS
the Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Centre in Seattle.
<http://www.fhcrc.org/science/scientific_report/clinical/pgreenberg.html>
(Submitted by investigator Ian Davis)

GREENLEE
James Greenlee, M.S., , LFHCfS
Instructor, Computer Science
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, Georgia
<http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/nique/issues/spring1999/4.16.99/cl3.html>
"Here's a link showcasing his mullet."
(Nominated by investigator Divya Narayanan)

HAYES
Tamara Hayes, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Biomedical Engineering
Oregon Health & Science University
Beaverton, Oregon "I and a couple of colleagues nominate Professor Tamara Hayes. We all worked with her prior to her academic career and believe that recent successes in the academic world have actually made her hair more luxuriant.:
<http://www.cse.ogi.edu/teasers/203_CSE541.html>
<http://www.cse.ogi.edu/faculty-alphabetical/>
(Nominated by Anthony Daniel)

HELFAND
David Helfand, LFHCfS
Chair
Department of Astronomy
Columbia University
New York, New York
<http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~djh/research.html>
(Submitted by Ilana Harrus)

HERBRANSON
Walter T. Herbranson, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology .
Whitman College ..
Walla Walla, Washington
<www.whitman.edu/psychology/People/FacultyPages/herbranson.htm>
"I nominate Walter T. Herbranson, Ph.D. for membership in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists club. Wally is a colleague of mine who is well-known for his teaching and research in comparative psychology, and for his friendliness and goodwill. He is also well-known for his luxuriantly flowing hair, and he surely qualifies for membership in your esteemed society."
(Submitted by Matthew Prull)

HERZ
Rachel S. Herz, LFHCfS
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Brown University
<http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Psychology/faculty/herz.html>
"Dr. Herz studies the mysteries of olfaction and memory. We in related fields sometimes study her hair, which is memorable and reportedly fragrant."
(Submitted by investigator Lee Allison.)

HODOSCEK
Milan Hodoscek, LFHCfS
Assistant professor of theoretical chemistry
University of Ljubljana
"Milan must be a member. What hair theman has!)."
<http://www.ijs.si/slo/foto/bb/pan/hodoscek/index.html-l1>
(Submitted by Tatiana Dubek)

HOLDEN
Joshua Brandon Holden, LFHCfS
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Mathematics
Duke University
<http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden/Pictures/josh.html>
<http://www.math.duke.edu/~holden/>
"Dr. Joshua Brandon is generously endowed in this respect, although the photograph on this Web page does not quite do justice to his natural gifts."
(Submitted by investigator Kim Plofker)

HOLMES
Rob Holmes, LFHCfS
Canadian Museum of Nature
Ottawa
"This is the best picture I can find of our Paleo Boy on our web site. It doesn't show his tresses in full array, but does show that the scenery around here is pretty good. And we have nice labs, too. Rob's nomination would be rivalled by one for his lovely bride, Alison Murray, also on our Paleo staff, unfortunately I cannot substantiate that one with a picture."
<http://nature.ca/discover/treasures/trsite_e/trfossil/tr1/tr1muse.html>
(Submitted by investigator Judith Price)

JONES, CAMERON
Cameron Jones, LFHCfS
Chancellery Research Fellow
Centre for Mathematical Modelling
Swinburne University of Technology
Hawthorn, Victoria
Australia
<http://www.swin.edu.au/maths/web/aboutus/cameron.htm>
(Submitted by investigator Jon Dell'Oro)

JONES, PAUL
"I cannot begin to say how grateful I am to Michael for nominating me for this distinguished honor. I've been working on this hair project since 1968 with few breaks (for job hunts in the late 70s) which makes my hair project older than many of my students' time on this planet. The rubber chicken is only a few years old, though."
Paul Jones, LFHCfS
Director
Ibiblio.org
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
<http://www.ibiblio.org/wdg/pics/pjones_chicken.jpg>
"I hearby nominate Paul Jones for inclusion in your club, as he exceeds your requirements. He not only has luxuriant, long hair, but also a rubber chicken. He also looks like a variety of people. He is also director of ibiblio.org, and teaches on the faculties of the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications and the School of Information and Library Science."
(Nominated by investigator Michael Czeiszperger)

KIHM
"I am honored to be counted among such a hirsute group. I will have you know that I also have my very own action figure (which has LFH) thanks to a pair of students."
Allen Kihm, LFHCfS
Head, Vertebrate Paleontology
Minot State University
<http://science.misu.nodak.edu/ES2/faculty.htm>
(Submitted by investigator Sally Shelton.)

KOEHL
Mimi R. Koehl, LFHCfS
Professor of Invertebrate Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
University of California Berkeley
"Mimi Koehl is one of our greatest biologists and her hair is just as admirable as her science (and on top of that she's a MacArthur Genius Grant winner)."
<http://ib.berkeley.edu/faculty/koehlm.html>
(Submitted by Barbara Oakes)

KOSTER
Karen L. Koster, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Biology
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota
<http://www.usd.edu/biol/faculty/koster/>
"Dr. Koster is qualified for membership because she has the hair. I am qualified to nominate her because we've been friends since 1980, and she was my wife's Maid of Honor at our wedding."
(Nominated by Richard Lipp)

KRAUSE
Thomas O. Krause, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Physics and Astronomy
Towson University
<http://www.towson.edu/physics/krause.htm>
"I nominate Dr. Thomas O. Krause, Physics and Astronomy, Towson University, for membership in the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.I can state that his hair's sheer presence has not diminished one bit since I first met Dr. Krause in 1977, and in fact it has selectively increased its reflective properties.
(Submitted by investigator JoAnne Schmitz)

LASSEZ
Jean-Louis Lassez, LFHCfS
Chairman
Department of Computer Science
Coastal Carolina University
Conway, South Carolina
<http://cs.coastal.edu/images/faculty/9.jpg>
<http://cs.coastal.edu/jl/jlresumenew.htm>
"It is with great pleasure that I nominate Dr. Jean-Louis Lassez. Dr. Lassez is a prominent researcher in machine learning and bioinformatics, an icon in the field of logic programming, my current colleague and former dissertation advisor. He is also, without question, admirably qualified for LFHCfS membership."
(Nominated by investigator Jonathan P. Bernick)

LAVAGNINO
John Lavagnino, LFHCfS
Lecturer in humanities computing
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
<http://purl.oclc.org/net/lav/>
"Dr. Lavagnino is a physicist and computer scientist now moonlighting as a scholar of twentieth-century English and American literature, whose tuggable tresses have long been one of the noted sights at humanities computing conferences on both sides of the Atlantic."
(Submitted by investigator Kim Plofker)

LAZERRI
John Lavagnino, LFHCfS
Research Assistant (Post Doc.)
Department of Chemistry
Princeton University
<http://bellini.princeton.edu/~mlazzeri/>
"Here is an outstanding candidate for the LFH club."
(Submitted by investigator Andrea De Martino)

LIEB
Shannon Lieb, LFHCfS
Professor of Chemistry
Butler University
Indianapolis, Indiana
<http://www.butler.edu/chemistry/>
"I'd like to nominate Dr. Shannon Lieb from Butler University. Although when he was my teacher in the late 80's he got haircuts once a year, it seems he's given them up altogether as seen in this URL (the one with the suspenders in the front)."
(Nominated by Sarah Locknar)

LONDON
David London, LFHCfS
Professor of Physics
Université de Montréal
<http://www.phys.umontreal.ca/bottin/recherche.asp?Numero=73&style=parnumero&>
(Submitted by investigator Luke Hand)

MACHESKY
Laura. M. Machesky, LFHCfS
School of Biosciences
The University of Birmingham
<http://www.biosciences.bham.ac.uk/staff/machesky.html>
"I would like to nominate Dr. Laura Machesky, the luxuriance of whose hair is bettered only by that of her cat."
(Submitted by investigator Robert Insall)

MASON
Helen Mason, LFHCfS
Assistant Director of Research
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
<http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/astro/publi/fountains/helen.html>
(Submitted by Jeremy Bradley)

MATHIEU
Martin Mathieu, LFHCfS
Pure Mathematics Department
Queen's University Belfast
"I nominate Dr Martin Mathieu for membership of the luxuriantly flowing hair club. See the photo for evidence of his accomplishment."
(Submitted by investigator Jonathan R. Partington)

MCCONCHIE
David McConchie, LFHCfS
Professor of Geochemistry
Centre for Coastal Management
Southern Cross University
<http://www.virotec.com/aboutusb.cfm?page=article&id=107&cat=15>
"For this picture pic we'd bothered to cut his hair - and trim his beard. But then, you could just wander around and look at any old field geologist and they'd all look exactly the same. Hairy. Company geologists usually look a bit tidier, but the field geologist or the academic geologist has a reputation to keep."
(Submitted by investigator Fiona Davies-McConchie)

McEUEN
Paul McEuen, LFHCfS
Physics Dept.
Cornell University:
<http://www.physics.cornell.edu/profpages/McEuen.htm>
(Submitted by investigator Michael S. Fuhrer)

MICHELL
Prof. Robert H. Michell, LFHCfS
Professor
School of Biosciences
The University of Birmingham
<http://www.biosciences.bham.ac.uk/staff/michell.html>
"I would like to nominate professor Bob Michell for his luxuriant flowing hair, which includes a beard with much character and flow. You can often find Bob in his sandals and favorite shirt (pictured) with his flowing hair in a neat pony tail. He brightens everyone's day and we all love his hair!"
(Submitted by investigator Laura. M. Machesky)

MOHAMED, SHAMIM
Shamim Mohamed, LFHCfS
Computer Scientist
Logitech
San Francisco, California
<http://www.drones.com/LFHCfS/office.jpg>
<http://www.drones.com/LFHCfS/>
"I hereby nominate Shamim Mohamed, Ph.D., to the LFHCfS. Dr. Mohamed has prepared his own nomination page -- his luxuriant and colourful mane may be seen in all its glory there. Shamim is a computer scientist by training and profession but is a man of manifold interests. I heartily recommend browsing his web site <http://www.drones.com>."
(Nominated by Vicraj Thomas)

MORROW
Cherilynn Morrow, LFHCfS
Manager for Education and Outreach, Space Science Institute (SSI)
Chair of the Solar Physics and Aeronomy Education & Public Information Committee, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
<http://www.spacescience.org/Welcome/SSIPeople/Bios/Morrow/1.html>
<http://mmp.planetary.org/scien/morrc/morrc70.htm>
"I nominate Dr. Cherilynn Morrow. As you can see from the website, her luxuriant, flowing hair has been seen all over the globe, and surely deserves membership."
(Nominated by investigator Christy Edwards)

PATT
Yale N. Patt, LFHCfS
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
<http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~patt/>
"I propose one of my old professors from UT."
(Submitted by investigator Gunn Pachai Salelanonda)

PAYETTE
Julie Payette, LFHCfS
Astronaut
Canadian Space Agency
<http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/payette.html>
(Submitted by investigator Lorne Wald)

PINKER
“Luxuriant hair is always pleasing, possibly because it shows not only current health but a record of health in the years before."
Steven Pinker, LFHCfS
Chair
Psychology Department
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
<http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/>
(Submitted by acclamation, and then cheerfully acknowledged by Dr. Pinker)

PIPAS
"I am alive, kicking, and in total awe, tinged by a feeling of humility regarding the honor of being nominated to such a prestigious group. I am sure you know that, while I still have my hair, it is not really of 'star' quality. Rather it is your everyday scientist/rock star hustling, hard-working hair. This could be the break that finally makes my career."
James M. Pipas, LFHCfS
Professor and Chair
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
<http://www.pitt.edu/~biohome/dept/frame/faculty/pipas.htm>
and rock star
<The Sleaze >
"Jim Pipas is a virologist at the University of Pittsburgh and a most talented musician and performer. His band, The Sleaze, is actually very good and plays regularly at Pittsburgh's top bars."
(Nominated by Maggie Fox)

RECORD
Ron Record , LFHCfS
Open Source Architect
SCO
Santa Cruz, California
<http://ronrecord.com/jpg/Ron_Record.jpg>
<http://ronrecord.com/jpg/rrprofile.jpg>
<http://ronrecord.com/bio.html>
(Nominated by Hanna Nelson)

RESNIK
Philip Resnik, LFHCfS
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
<http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/resnik/>
(Submitted by investigator Heidi J. Fox)

RICHARDS
Norvin Richards, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
MIT
Cambridge, Massachusetts
<http://web.mit.edu/norvin/www/home.html>
"I would like to nominate Dr. Norvin Richards III for membership in LFHCfS. While he is not blessed with LFH on top of his head, his beard is L and F indeed, as you can see in this photo: <http://mit.edu/linguistics/www/pictures/faculty_pics/norvin.jpg>. His scientific credentials are as impressive as his beard. His 1997 dissertation, just published by Oxford University Press as Movement in Language: Interactions and Architecture, is a groundbreaking investigation into the principles that govern wh-movement. He has also done much important work on Austronesian and Algonquian languages."
(Nominated by Bridget Copley)

ROGERS
Bryan Rogers, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Biology
Louisiana State University
"My genetics teacher, Bryan Rogers, needs to be a member of the elite hair club. His hair extends more than seven inches down his back.)."
<http://www.biology.lsu.edu/faculty_listings/fac_pages/brogers.html>
(Submitted by Courtney M Cain)

ROTHLISBERGER
Ursula Rothlisberger, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Computer-Aided Inorganic Chemistry
ETH Zentrum, Zurich
<http://www.chem.ethz.ch/D-CHEM-Prof/roethlisberger/roethlisberger.html>
(Submitted by investigator Gruezi)

ROURMAN
Mason Rourman, LFHCfS
Electrical Antenna Engineer
Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo, California
"I direct you to the website he had while a graduate student at Cal State Fullerton. His hair is no les luxuriantly flowing now than it was then."
<http://chaos.fullerton.edu/~mason>
(Submitted by Trish Lohmar)

RUDD
Michael E. Rudd, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Washington
<http://depts.washington.edu/psych/Faculty/rudd.html>
(Submitted by Brian Bechtel)

RUPERT
Ben Rupert, LFHCfS
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry
University of Califoria
Berkeley, California
<http://photos.yahoo.com/bc/eanewsom/vwp?.dir=/&.src=ph&.dnm=Luxurious+Hair.jpg&\.view=t&.done>
(NOTE: if clicking on this link fails to bring you to the photo, try copying the URL and pasting it into your browser window.)
"Ben Rupert is a chemistry grad student at UC Berkeley. His magnificent locks inspire awe and envy in all who see them. Countless masses have been inspired to grow out their own hair upon a single view of his, but the few, oh, the very few can measure up."
(Submitted by Elizabeth Newsom)

RUVKUN
Gary Ruvkun, LFHCfS
Assistant and Associate Professor of Genetics
Harvard Medical School
<http://xanadu.mgh.harvard.edu/ruvkunweb/No17.html>
"You have to go most of the way toward the bottom of this genetics-and-molecular-biology-heavy page before you see the indicative photo. Let me assure you that in person, Gary's H is at least as LF as Steve Pinker's, though not as curly."
(Submitted by investigator Michael Finney)

SAPOLSKY
Robert Sapolsky, LFHCfS
Professor of Neuroendocrinology
Stanford University
"I respectfully nominate candidate Stanford neuroendocrinologist Robert Sapolsky to the club."
(Submitted by investigator Sylvie Coyaud)

SARASON
Bob Sarason, LFHCfS
Laser Safety Officer
UC Davis
<http://www.ehs.ucdavis.edu/im/newsltr/spring2k/spring2k_3.htm>
"I'd like to nominate my co-worker, Bob Sarason, for membership. As you can see, Bob does have luxuriant flowing hair, with ringlets, no less. The ringlets are a bit mashed - Bob rode his beloved and lovingly restored and chopped 1945 Knucklehead Harley-Davidson motorcycle the day I took this pic. Bob holds a Masters in reproductive physiology and is a hapkido instructor."
(Submitted by investigator Debbie Decker)

SCHNELL
Alexander Schnell, LFHCfS
Materials Scientist
Alstom Gmbh
Switzerland
"I would like to nominate my colleague Dr. Alexander Schnell for membership into The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He is a materials scientist working on high temperature superalloy brazing solutions for rotating gas turbine components."
(Nominated by investigator Andrew Passmore)

SCHRAUNDOLPH
Nic Schraudolph, LFHCfS
Oberassistent (group leader), Machine Learning
Swiss Federal Polytechnic
Zurich
<http://www.inf.ethz.ch/~schraudo/>
"I would like to nominate Dr. Nic Schraudolph. His unique hairstyle (cropped front, long luxurious flowing back) will certaily make him a member in good standing!"
(Nominated by investigator Tom Brendle)

SCOTT
Peter Scott, LFHCfS
Associate Professor Emeritus
Physics Department
University of California at Santa Cruz
<http://physics.ucsc.edu/people/personal/scott.html>
(Nominated by investigator Dinah Phillips)

SIGUR
Steve Sigur, LFHCfS
Teacher, mathematics and science
The Paideia School
Atlanta, Georgia
<http://www.paideiaschool.org/alumni/classof77.htm>
<http://www.paideiaschool.org/alumni/basketball.htm>
"I'd like to nominate Steve Sigur, who teaches math and science at the Paideia School in Atlanta, GA, and Darren Glass, one of his former students who is now a professor of mathematics at Columbia.  Both of these men have wonderful minds and even more delightful personalities,"
(Submitted by investigator Beverly Love)

SLATER
Tim Slater, LFHCfS
Micro Machinist
Masters in Engineering from University of California, Santa Barbara
<http://www.mindspring.com/~april/>http://www.mindspring.com/~april/>
"I would like to nominate Tim Slater to your club. He is not only a scientist (micro machinist) but he actually has long flowing (bad) hair. He seems perfectly suited for your club and his hair really does need to win an award or at least acknowledgement of some kind.I believe he is averaging a 7.8 on 'Am I Hot or Not' with this photo."
(Nominated by investigator April Lorren)

SMITH (NOAH A.)
Noah A. Smith, LFHCfS
Graduate Student
Department of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University.
Baltimore, Maryland
<http://nlp.cs.jhu.edu/~nasmith/>
"I nominate Noah Smith, who is a (former) student of Resnick (also a member). Maybe Luxuriant Flowing Hair is hereditary?"
(Submitted by Gideon Mann)

SOLOWAY
Elliot Soloway, LFHCfS
Professor
School of Information AND School of Education
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
<http://hi-ce.eecs.umich.edu/hiceinformation/people/soloway/>
<http://www.ceca-ct.org/CECA2002/soloway.html>
"Elliot Soloway is known not only for his brillance and energy, but also his fabulous hair!"
(Submitted by Paula Wellings)

SPALLER
Mark Spaller, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry
Wayne State University
"Dr. Spaller is a gifted lecturer and seems to have a pretty good sense of humor."
<http://www.chem.wayne.edu/> Click on FACULTY, then click on SPALLER
(Submitted by Karla D. Cesarek)

STOLL
Cliff Stoll, LFHCfS
"Astronomer, author of 'Cuckoo's Egg' and 'Silicon Snake Oil,' and science correspondent of sorts for MSNBC"
<http://www.thebee.com/bweb/iinfo72.htm>
(Submitted by investigator Tom Way)

STRAHAN
Dr. Susan Strahan, LFHCfS
General Sciences Corporation
<http://www.saic-gsc.com/news/estc97award.html>
(Submitted by investigator Lynn Sparling)

TERENZI
Fiorella Terenzi
Astrobiologist, author, recording artist
<http://www.fiorella.com/>
"Dr. Fiorella Terenzi is my idol. What a mind! What hair!"
(Nominated by investigator Carl Dolan)

TURSE
Stephanie E. Turse
Research Associate
Molecular Virology and Microbiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
<http://www.gradbiomed.pitt.edu/mvm/faculty.asp?ID=68#>
"I would like to nominate my friend and colleague Stephanie to your club. She is the person in top right of the picture. Her hair goes all the way to her waist."
(Nominated by investigator Karen Fite)

VILLA
Elizabeth Villa, LFHCfS
Biophysics PhD student
Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
<http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~villa/>
"It is with great respect and admiration that I nominate my friend and colleague, Elizabeth Villa. She possesses not only luxuriant, flowing (fully solvated) hair, but a true and enduring love of science that few can match."
(Nominated by investigator Rosemary Braun)

VOKEY
John R. Vokey, LFHCfS
Professor
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Lethbridge.
Lethbridge, Alberta
<http://home.uleth.ca/~vokey/>
"We would like to nominate Dr. John Vokey of the University of Lethbridge, both an excellent scientist and proof that long cogitation fertilizes the hair roots. "
(Submitted by Dr. Stewart Longman [not alas eligible due to short and thinning hair] and Dr. Katharina Rach-Longman [with long and luxuriant flowing hair])

WATTS
Gordon Watts, LFHCfS
Assistant Professor of Physics
University of Washington
<http://d0.epe.phys.washington.edu/~gwatts/>
"With his smooth, silky hair, Gordon is a "natch" for the LFH club! He's an Assistant Prof. in HEP at U.W. working on the DZero experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron."
(Submitted by investigator Robin D. Erbacher)

WICH
Klaus Wich, LFHCfS
Diplom-Informatiker
Department of Computer Science Theory
Universität Stuttgart
<http://www.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/ifi/ti/personen/Wich/>
"His hair qualifies."
(Nominated by Christian Renz)

WILSON
Rob Wilson, LFHCfS
<http://www.ualberta.ca/~philosop/faculty/wilson/>
Professor of Philosophy
University of Alberta
(Submitted by investigators Jeff Pelletier, Barbara Abbott, and Larry Horn, and, eventually, Rob Wilson)

 

 

WINDER
Russell Winder, LFHCfS
Visiting Academic
Department of Computer Science
King's College London
<http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/russel/>
(Nominated by investigator Ross Burton)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Resigned Due to Haircut

Dr. M.
(Name withdrawn)
RESIGNED December 9, 2002, due to haircut.
("I guess I do not really qualify anymore as a member of the luxuriant flowing hair club for scientists. My hair is now pretty much as short as can be. So, in order to preserve the luxuriant flowing character of the club, I guess, I should resign.")

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Historical Honorary Members

CRUZ -- Historical Honorary Member
Oswaldo Cruz, LFHCfS
"Tireless worker for public health, reduction of disease, etc. Nice hair. Died 1917."
<http://www.lileks.com/money/brazil/24.html>
(Submitted by Gwen Barnes)

EINSTEIN -- Historical Honorary Member
Albert Einstein, LFHCfS
"Physicist. Bon vivant. A bold experimentalist with hair. Died 1955."
<http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physpiceinstein.html>
(Submitted by Janie Thomas)

FEYNMAN -- Historical Honorary Member
Richard Feynman, LFHCfS
"I nominate Feynman (1918-1988), for LFHCfS. Surely, he would have liked it."
<http://aries.phys.yorku.ca/~bartel/GPBmovie/feynman.jpg>
(Submitted by R.M. Mentock)

FRANKLIN -- Historical Honorary Member
Benjamin Franklin, LFHCfS
"The club would be incomplete without Ben Franklin (1706-1790), one of history's greatest scientists. And unlike certain other celebrated scientists with long hair, Ben's was all natural, not some fancy wig."
<http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/brush/ben.htm>
(Submitted by Jacqueline Holmes)

NEWTON -- Historical Honorary Member
Isaac Newton, LFHCfS
"I would like to nominate Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1747) -- arguably history's greatest physicist, the inventor of the calculus, and hair like a rock star."
<http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/media/newton-body.html>
(Submitted by George Haley)

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