William Mark (Bill) Freund (1944–2020)

Big Bad Bill is sweet William now.

William "Bill" Back: an incisive geochemist and a great mentor.

Introduction William ‘‘Bill’’ Back (Figure 1) was one of the great ‘‘idea people’’ in low-temperature geochemistry during the blossoming of ground water hydrology in the latter half of the twentieth century. Prior to the1950s, most of the research in ground water chemistry was related to water quality and was carried out by chemists who rarely ventured into the field. Bill, Ivan Barnes, Bruce H...

Freund-rubin Revisited

We utilise the duality between M theory and Type IIA string theory to show the existence of Freund-Rubin compactifications of M theory on 7-manifolds with singularities supporting chiral fermions. This leads to a concrete way to study phenomenologically interesting quantum gravity vacua using a holographically dual three dimensional field theory. bacharya, denef, hofman, [email protected]...

Recipient of the 2014 IETS Pioneer Award: William W. (Bill) Thatcher, MS, PhD.

Dr William W. Thatcher is a native of Baltimore-Perry Hall, Maryland. He developed a love for livestock when he spent part of his summers as a boy on his grandfather’s dairy farm. Dr Thatcher received his BS degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Maryland in 1963, the MS degree from the University of Maryland under the direction of C. A. Kiddy in 1965, and the PhD degree in 1968 from...

Dear Mark: Bill and I were discussing some ideas for future projects with the PWC Endowment

Governments have begun to use the worldwide Web to assist in service delivery. This includes, but goes far beyond the dissemination of information to the general public and includes a variety of other governmental functions. In reviewing some government Websites it is clear that the use of the Web for service delivery is still in its infancy. The type of services that can be delivered through t...