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Lord Kelvin Award Winner Thomas A. Hanson
My stepfather Thomas A. Hanson Was recently awarded The Lord Kelvin Award in Tel Aviv by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) .For his contributions in the field of fiber optics. Simply put he is a magic man with numbers.
When I learned about the award I thought about all the people in the world like him , that work so passionately to solve problems that we all benefit from.
It was a bit overwhelming at first. So many people & so much work has been tediously tweaked out in numbers scribbled on miles of paper until solutions are solved.
So "Thumbs Up Tom" and to all the people in like you.
Thomas A. Hanson (left) and IEC President Jacques Régis
at the Lord Kelvin Award ceremony in Tel Aviv
The Battle Of Left & Right
By Anna Jean Lang Holmes
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I sit back and think of people that have come into my life at different points and try to compartmentalize the who, what, when, where's and whys. It's a copping mechanism I use to understand that most things in life happen for a reason. What are the pros and cons, the benefits or consequences of knowing them in my life?
When we met, we were faced with the typical power struggles often found between stepparents and stepchildren. As you might expect my stepfather & I are as opposite as left & right, I was a right brain creative and he was dominated by a technical left brain. This complicated things just a bit, but we found our way thought it by finding common interest.
One day there was a discussion about were to hang a painting in the home, It was a framed print of Van Gogh's sunflowers, I'm sure it was his because I had not seen it before. I just sat back thinking to myself "who cares where it hangs" like a typical young teen. Anyway it seemed to be important that in hang in the same room as the television. That evening at the dinner table I asked "what's the big deal about the art print anyway?" He simply said "It's one of Van Gogh's sunflowers and I like it". I had no idea who this Van Gogh guy was so I checked into it at the school library. From that day on I was truly hooked on Van Gogh's art. Thinking back on things now, I can see the importance of where the art print should hang and the irony of it all.
Vincent had quite an attachment to the flowers personally. In the year before his death he wrote to his brother 'It is a kind of painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it…
This print hung on the wall opposite of his chair where he spent hundreds of hours littering miles of fold out computer paper with number after number. I can't help but wander if he found calm when gazing into Van Gogh's work, which allowed his mind to identify problems and find solutions in his own work.
He also introduced me to the work of MC Escher another favorite artist of mine. And again I had to explore this Escher guy at the school library .It didn't take me long to learn that he loved the math behind the work and I loved the image of the work. I also found Escher to be humors and intriguing as well as talented, as the quotes below reflect.
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check"
"To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am"
M.C. Escher was a man studied and greatly appreciated by respected mathematicians, scientists and crystallographer's yet he had no formal training in math or science. He was a humble man who considered himself neither an artist nor mathematician.
We continued to struggle, a constant tug of war between left and right. Both being a bit stubborn we marched on. Back then we were not totally surrounded by the modern marvels of today; We of course had a computer in the house, it was a Texas instruments keyboard hooked up to a television and it had a few games on it. But I was mostly used for programming and such.
We played a lot of board games while listening to music on a record player; he has an amazing collection of albums. I was born in 1968 and so my knowledge of music at the time consisted of southern rock, disco and pop .I had from time to time heard some of the music he listened to, but it really wasn't main stream. The more I listened to it the more I liked it. To this day when ever I hear a song by the Beatles I think of him.
I was in seventh grade when he taught me how to play backgammon; I instantly fell in love with the game. And as for us it was a positive way to battle. Backgammon is the perfect mixture of luck and skill, a balance of strategic moves and risk taking. Yet another common ground for the left and the right. He also taught me how to play other games which have been constant in my life. Such as Risk & Othello
We continued to find common ground in art , games and music and eventually we reached a clam understanding for one another. In some odd way I think we learned from one another.
So as you can see behind the numbers is a man, who introduced me to art,games & music . He opened my mind through simple things allowing me to truly find the talents of my right. In a sneaky manner opened my left allowing me to benefit from all that life has to offer.
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