Profile: Marc Weeks

Your personal background.
I'm a 50-year-old Californian employed as a health record technician supervisor. My interests are my 6-year-old son, railfanning, the sciences--astronomy in particular, chess, and go. Living in the Bay Area, I've been fortunate enough to have seen lectures by Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Bob Bakker (dinosaur hunter), Tim White (paleoanthropologist), Mark Plotkin (paleobotanist), and Joseph Silk (cosmologist). One memorable evening, while assisting over 1,000 people with viewing Comet Hyakutake through a friend's 24-inch Dobsonian telescope, I got to meet Nobel Laureate Owen Chamberlain, a co-discoverer of the antiproton. With my own eyes I've seen Brownian motion through a microscope, the birth of my son, and supernovae in other galaxies.

Your opinions about Einstein@Home
Assisting with the Einstein at Home project is a natural extension of my own interests, and I wish the project the utmost success. Seeing ol' Albert vindicated time and time again is an extraordinary testament to the human intellect and the relentless march of science.
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