User:Emerald-wiki

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Basic information

Physics

Born in Snowdonia, North Wales
BSc in Physics and Pure Mathematics, BA Spanish, MSc Medical Physics and PhD solving a problem which involved electronics, astrophysics, nuclear physics and computer modelling
Self-taught electronics to fairly high level (somewhere at degree level)
Self-taught in some aspects of programming (BASIC, microprocessors and PIC microcontrollers)
I run my life using Excel spreadsheets and Outlook
Lived all over a significant proportion of the UK (furthest north - Liverpool, furthest south - Brighton, furthest east - Lowestoft, furthest west - Penmachno, most central - Leicester) and a while in the Philippines
Retired, so currently my "employment" consists of volunteering for an animal charity (walking and caring for rescue dogs) and consultancy for an international examination board
Well-travelled

Rhinog Fach

Publications

Four physics textbooks on my own plus a few to which I made contributions
One electronics textbook
Contributions to science education books, brochures and journals

Languages

Languages

In order of competence:

English
Spanish
Tagalog
Welsh (First and only language until age four, then sudden switch to English due to misguided advice received by parents and anti-Welsh politics at the time! I can still manage some "kitchen" Welsh)

Interests

Pride

In no particular order (my current obsession will be from something in the following list):

LGBT history, art, politics, campaigns
Politics associated with race, gender and religion
Multiculturalism, diversity and integration
Political art (including performance, video and visual art in general)
All topics of global significance
Indian cinema (especially more recent films with social and political comment)
Spanish-language cinema
Animals (especially dogs, and very especially sheep dogs)
History (in particular Welsh, Roman, and British Empire and Commonwealth)
Indian food
Baking (especially bread of all kinds)

Favourite expression

Dog

"Be more dog!"

This implies:

— living for the moment

— loyal

— adventurous

— forgiving

— loving

— no discrimination

— and many more good qualities!

Sheep dog

Articles created

Afon Merddwr (translation of Welsh Wikipedia)
Caereinion
Cedewain
Cyfeiliog (article to replace redirection)
Deuddwr (article to replace redirection)
George Chakravarthi
La Casa Encendida (Madrid) (translation of Spanish Wikipedia with some detail added)
Llanerchydol
Mochnant
Oswestry Castle
Owain Fychan
Penllyn (cantref)
River Cain (translation of Welsh Wikipedia, citations and more information added)
Tomen yr Allt
Y Gorddwr
Ystlyg
Ystrad Marchell

Articles edited significantly

Articles I want to create - my "to do" list

Pengwern Hall, Llangollen
Corsydd Nug a Merddwr (it exists, but needs some content!)
Derwlwyn Coppice Hillfort (52.7724°N 3.25939°W / 52.7724; -3.25939 see Talk:Llanfyllin)

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This user lives in Great Britain.

This user is a native speaker of the English language.

This user has been on Wikipedia for 11 years, 3 months and 1 day.

According to The Political Compass this user is:
Economic Left (−9.25) and
Social Libertarian (−6.21)

This user is interested in ancient Rome.

This user supports the independence of Tibet.

This user identifies as gay.

This user is proudly out of the closet and gay.

This user supports equal rights for LGBT people.

This user supports the legalization of same-sex marriage.

This user is male.

This user has a husband.

This user has an amateur radio license.

This user is fascinated by chaos theory.

K

This user uses the Kelvin scale, because 0K is much cooler than
−273.15°C or −459.67°F.

This user accepts evolution as a biological fact.

BSc

This user has a Bachelor of Science degree.

MSc

This user has a Master of Science degree.

PhD

This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

ATH

This user is an atheist.

This user is a past or present student at the University of Leicester.

UoS

This user is a graduate of the University of Surrey

This user attends or attended the University of East Anglia.

This user is an
Open University graduate

\nabla \times \mathbf {E} =-{\frac {\partial \mathbf {B} }{\partial t}}

This user understands Physics at a graduate level.

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