George H. Goble

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George H. Goble is a staff member at the Purdue University Engineering Computer Network and a 1996 Ig Nobel Prize winner.

Goble is commonly known as "ghg" since he has used that as a login id, and signature in digital communications, since the 1970s. He received his BS in

Around this time, Goble, along with Bill Croft, also developed a networking protocol for Unix, referred to as pnet, which was used at Purdue at the time before being displaced by TCP/IP. Pnet allowed remote logins, and remote execution of commands, among other capabilities.[2]

In the late 1980s, Goble started experimenting with

In 1996, Goble was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for preparing a barbecue for cooking in less than 5 seconds by the use of a smoldering cigarette, charcoal and LOX (liquid oxygen).^[3] This act attracted the attention of the West Lafayette, Indiana fire department, which warned him to never let them catch him in the possession of LOX near a barbecue fire ever again.

Goble is also noted for driving a vehicle with the Indiana license plate UNIX, and now also GHG-1.

References

External links

• George Goble's page at Purdue
• George Goble's Homepage (The extended homepage no longer works as of 9/18/2009)
• Autofrost, Goble's refrigerant company
• The 1995 Dave Barry humor column which gave GHG the attention of the Ig Nobel committee
• Interview and photographs of ignition
• YouTube video of George Goble lighting a grill in 3 seconds with liquid oxygen