From Peter Hollins, University of Reading
Reading
All three of my improbably named coauthors on the Quick, Browne, Fox and
Hollins paper (Feedback, 30 November and Letters, 4 January, p 45 and 25
January, p 51) are in fact real. Vince Browne and Shaw Fox were two quite
excellent research students who worked with me in the late 1980s, and their
names appear together on four other publications.
The subsequent arrival of an undergraduate named Tony Quick proved too
tempting an opportunity for a lazy dog like myself, and I suggested to him that
he might like to assist (admittedly not in a very major capacity) with one of
their projects.
Following publication of the paper, we received an extraordinarily large
number of requests for reprints, including one from Bill Gadzuk of the US
National Institute of Standards and Technology, who explained that he was
inquiring on behalf of three colleagues. His reprint request card was signed
“Big, Bad, Wolf and Gadzuk”.
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