User:Nolabob/sandbox/TestPlatform

This sandbox is being used as a test platform for improvements to various articles as well as trying out new Wikimedia tools.

Some possible new articles: Annabelle Bernard, Sister Mary Elise Sisson, and James Yestadt, all of whom had a connection with Xavier U. in New Orleans and are now deceased. Thomas Sully is another strong possibility. The Bernard article is currently underway.

I'm presently using this test platform to clean-up my user page, by experimenting with a collapsible table. Media Wiki on collapsible tables. General how-to discussion of tables.

Significant Contributions to:

Number	Article	Description
1	George E. Burch	Medical researcher
2	List of people from New Orleans	Notable New Orleanians
3	William Bruce Mumford	Figure in the US Civil War
4	National World War II Museum	Museum in New Orleans
5	Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans	Historic cemetery in New Orleans
6	Irish Channel, New Orleans	Historic district
7	My Gal Sal	Historic aircraft at the National WWII Museum
8	Jesuit Bend, Louisiana	Community in New Orleans
9	John Churchill Chase	Editorial cartoonist
10	Rachel Lloyd	Scientist
11	Earl L. Muetterties	Scientist
12	Wayne Mack	Broadcast journalist
13	Mr. Bingle	Fictional character
14	Amistad Research Center	For African-American heritage
15	pH Meter	Scientific instrument
16	Spectronic 20	Scientific instrument
17	Eamon Kelly	Tulane University administrator
18	Explorer Wendell Phillips	Archeologist and explorer
19	Albert C. Ledner	Architect
20	Scientific celebrity	Popularly known scientists
21	George Bissell	Oil industry pioneer in the United States
22	Struble Trail	Multi-use recreational trail in Chester County, PA
23	Ernie Freeman	Jazz musician
24	Holt Cemetery	Historic potter's field in New Orleans
25	Wilhelm Ostwald	Scientist and father of the field of physical chemistry
26	Saul Hertz	Physician-scientist
27	Annie Trumbull Slosson	Fiction writer and entomologist
28	Chalmette National Cemetery	Historic military cemetery
29	Otto Schott	Inventor of high quality optics
30	Ralph E. Oesper	Science historian
31	Klaus Grutzka	Industrial artist
32	Antonio Neri	Priest and pioneer in the science of glass-making
33	Philip P. Werlein	Music publisher and retailer
34	Amelia Laskey	Ornithologist and autodidact
35	Calutron Girls	A group of Manhattan Project workers
36	Virginia Holsinger	Food scientist
37	John Duffy	Medical historian
38	Agnes Pockels	Colloid scientist and autodidact
39	Walter Lear	Physician and social activist
40	Joan Luedders Wolfe	Environmental activist
41	Althea Sherman	Ornithologist
42	Cordelia Stanwood	Ornithologist
43	Henri Devaux	Surface scientist and religious philosopher
44	Alan Charlton	British diplomat
45	Langenstein's	New Orleans grocery store chain
46	St. Frances Cabrini Church	Roman Catholic Church built in modernist style
47	Sasha Suda	CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
48	Ernest Lagarde	Literary scholar of Louisiana Creole descent (mostly copyediting)
49	Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Interrogation Camp	WWII facility in Pennsylvania
50	Christopher Drew	Investigative journalist
51	Robert H. Socolow	Environmental scientist
52	Edward Baquet	Creole restaurateur & civil rights activist
53	Arnaud's	Older, well-established Louisiana Creole restaurant

Beginning in March 2017, I volunteered to assist the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Science History Institute. In this capacity, I have made significant contributions to, edited extensively, or originated, the articles listed below. The position of Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Science History Institute ceased to exist as a result of the economic downturn from the 2020 global pandemic.

1. pH Meter, scientific instrument
2. Spectronic 20, scientific instrument
3. Cary 14 Spectrophotometer, scientific instrument
4. Arnold Thackray, science historian
5. Leroy Hood, biologist, inventor of several scientific instruments
6. Carl Axel Arrhenius, early chemist, research led to discovery of several elements
7. Nils Johan Berlin, early chemist, devised means of separating rare earth elements
8. Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist, important in the early history of the field
9. Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, Swedish chemist who made contributions to the forerunner of the periodic table
10. Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist who contributed to understanding periodicity, atomic weights and rare earth chemistry
11. Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, chemist, discoverer of several elements, pioneer in the field of spectroscopy
12. Fritz Strassmann, nuclear chemist whose pioneering research led to discovery of nuclear fission.
13. Harold G. Richter, nuclear chemist and environmental chemist
14. Friedrich Wöhler, early pioneer in organic chemistry
15. Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist