Talk:Alwyn Van der Merwe

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Is the information in this page accurate? Telesio-Galilei institution have been described as an obscure, pseudoscientific Web entity.

Scientific contibutions

Having looked at AJ van der Merwe's contributions on Mathscinet, Arxiv and SCI, it seems that he only produced a small number of original papers, most of these joint with Wolfgang Yourgau. He has participated in writing or updating textbooks and has been editor-in-chief of a Springer journal FP (with Yourgau after 1975) and FPL (1988-2007). He has also been the main editor of a series of books and proceedings on the foundations of physics. So although he fails to satisfy point 1 of WP:PROF (original contributions), he does satisfy point 8 (editor-in-chief).Mathsci (talk) 11:07, 30 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

On the other hand, he did persuade Tony Blair to ask the queen of England to pay a yearly stipend to Myron Evans. notable!92.10.191.208 (talk) 11:10, 23 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

105.226.87.207 (talk) 10:19, 5 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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What is his date of birth Numericana (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Quote from Myron Evans.

Alwyn van der Merwe is among the most cited of physicists because of his eminent editorship of the book series “Fundamental Theories of Physics”, many of those books under his series editorship are highly cited. He was the founding editor of “Foundations of Physics” in 1988. He ran his journals with great efficiency, doing editorial work with his own hands for each paper. I know this from personal experience. He was born in South Africa in 1927 and became a Victoria Scholar, He worked in the University of Amsterdam under Jan de Boer and S. A. Wouthhuysen, earning doctorates from Bern and Geneva. He was a research associate of Henry Margenau at Yale, and Hans Jensen at Heidelberg. He taught at New York University before becoming a tenured full professor in the University of Denver, now an Emeritus. He has published with Louis de Broglie and Asim Barut, and with the Dirac Medallist Christopher Ishen.