User:Nolabob

This user helped get "Christian Street Historic District" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 1 January 2022.
This user helped get "Curtis Imrie" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 9 August 2022.
This user helped get "Herman Neugass" listed at Did You Know on the main page on 9 November 2022.
This user helped "Calutron Girls" become a good article on 1 March 2022.
This user helped "Edith Rosenwald Stern" become a good article on 27 December 2022.
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— Wikipedian  —
New Orleans is a favorite topic
BornNew Orleans
Country United States
Current locationColorado
Pennsylvania (at times)
LanguagesEnglish
Spanish (limited)
Time zoneMST
Personality typeINTJ
Family and friends
Marital statusmarried
Children2
Siblings1
Education and employment
OccupationResearch scientist
Employerretired
EducationPhD
High schoolJesuit High School of New Orleans
CollegeTulane University
UniversityUniversity of California, Berkeley
Account statistics
Joined14 February 2011
Edit count10,000+

I currently reside in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. For many years, I resided in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where I lived when I first began contributions to the Wikipedia and some of its sister projects. I still spend a significant amount of time in Pennsylvania.

I earned a PhD in Chemistry at the

University of California at Berkeley
, which explains my particular interest in matters related to Chemistry and Materials on the Wikipedia.

I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, which explains why I have done so much Wikipedia editing on matters related to New Orleans. I am also an alumnus of Tulane University in New Orleans with a BS in Chemistry, having graduated from Jesuit High School of New Orleans in 1974.

Original Articles, listed below in the order in which I wrote them. Perhaps the quality improved as I became more experienced.

  1. Hap Glaudi, sports journalist
  2. Mel Leavitt, television journalist and historian
  3. Charles L. Dufour, humorist and writer
  4. Charles C. Bass, innovator in medicine and dentistry
  5. Adrien de Pauger, cartographer for the original design of New Orleans
  6. James A. Knight, medical ethicist
  7. Abraham Louis Levin, medical innovator
  8. Irish Bayou, community in New Orleans
  9. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, medical scientist
  10. Southern Regional Research Center, research on agriculture and agricultural products
  11. Alexander John Drysdale, artist
  12. Paul E. Poincy, artist
  13. Andres Molinary, artist
  14. William C. Drinkard, scientist and inventor
  15. Beulah Levy Ledner, pastry chef
  16. Frank Joseph Davis, writer and television journalist
  17. Nylon Rope Trick
    , scientific demonstration
  18. My Brother's Keeper Challenge
  19. Maria Vicenta Rosal, Latin American religious leader and feminist
  20. Herbert S. Eleuterio, scientist and inventor
  21. Constant C. Dejoie, Sr.
    , civic leader and businessman
  22. Robert Bledsoe Mayfield, artist
  23. Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
  24. Eleanor McMain, leader of progressive movements
  25. Barcelona Guitar Orchestra
  26. Albert W. Dent, civic leader and academic administrator
  27. Edgar B. Stern Sr
    , philanthropist
  28. Michael T. Dugan, academic
  29. Clifton H. Johnson, historian
  30. Cary 14 Spectrophotometer, scientific instrument
  31. Arnold Thackray, science historian
  32. Dog Aging Project
  33. Mardi Gras Doubloons
  34. Jerome LeDoux, priest
  35. Arthur Perry
    , college basketball coach
  36. Bayou Metairie, stranded distributary in southeast Louisiana
  37. Bartholomew Fussell, abolitionist
  38. Edith Rosenwald Stern, philanthropist
  39. Charles E. Fenner, New Orleans businessperson of Merrill Lynch fame
  40. Nehemiah Atkinson, professional tennis player and coach in New Orleans
  41. Royal D. Suttkus, ichthyologist, founder of a major collection of fishes
  42. New Orleans Recreation Department
  43. Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans
  44. William C. Edenborn, Louisiana industrialist and inventor
  45. Paul Crawford, jazz musician and historian
  46. Curtis and Davis Architects and Engineers
  47. Leon C. Weiss, "Huey Long's architect"
  48. Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets, early big box retailer
  49. Sara T. Mayo, physician and humanitarian reformer
  50. Werlein's for Music, long-standing music retailer and publisher that served New Orleans
  51. Christian Street Historic District, aka Black Doctors' Row
  52. Leon C. Megginson, noted for his clarifying statement about Darwinism
  53. Robert W. Tebbs, architectural photographer noted for photoessay of defunct plantation homes
  54. Hogan Jazz Archive of Tulane University
  55. Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, musician, professor, inventor
  56. Elijah F. Pennypacker, abolitionist
  57. Basilica of St. Stephen (New Orleans)
  58. Curtis Imrie, pack burro racer
  59. Jean-Louis Dolliole, architect who was a free person of color
  60. Lory Schaff, leader in adult literacy education
  61. Herman Neugass, Athlete and Olympic boycotter
  62. A Studio in the Woods, environmental art studio
  63. Richard Koch, architectural preservationist and photographer
  64. Leonard Spangenberg, New Orleans architect
  65. New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club, organization for modernist art & historic preservation
  66. Mona Minkara, scientist & advocate for the visually impaired
  67. Shipcarpenter Square, historic residential neighborhood in Lewes
  68. L'Union, African-American newspaper

Significant Contributions to:

  1. George E. Burch, medical researcher
  2. List of people from New Orleans, Louisiana
  3. William Bruce Mumford, figure in the US Civil War
  4. National World War II Museum
  5. Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans
  6. Irish Channel, New Orleans
  7. My Gal Sal, historical aircraft
  8. Jesuit Bend, Louisiana
  9. John Churchill Chase, editorial cartoonist
  10. Rachel Lloyd, scientist
  11. Earl L. Muetterties
    , scientist
  12. Wayne Mack, television journalist
  13. Mr. Bingle, fictional character
  14. Amistad Research Center
  15. pH Meter, scientific instrument
  16. Spectronic 20, scientific instrument
  17. Eamon Kelly
    , Tulane University administrator
  18. Explorer Wendell Phillips
  19. Albert C. Ledner, architect
  20. Scientific celebrity
  21. George Bissell, pioneer of the oil industry 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, father of physical chemistry
  26. Saul Hertz, physician-scientist
  27. Annie Trumbull Slosson, fiction writer and entomologist
  28. Chalmette National 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 & religious philosopher
  44. Alan Charlton, British diplomat
  45. Langenstein's, local grocery store chain in New Orleans
  46. St. Frances Cabrini Church, RC Church built in a modernist design
  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 PA
  50. Christopher Drew, investigative journalist

I have edited many other articles, too numerous to list here. I started contributing to the Wikipedia in February 2011. In addition, I have uploaded many photographs to the Wikimedia Commons and am beginning contributions to Wikivoyage. I usually have something under development in my sandboxes:

I have interest at present in upgrading the articles on Nina Floy Bracelin, Robert H. Socolow, and gas lighting, as well as several others not listed here.

I have a test platform. Here is a user subpage with a list of tools.

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

In December 2019, I created my first article for Wikiquote, that on Julius Rosenwald. This link is to my WikiQuote user page which lists my original articles for Wikiquote. I also originate WikiData items, usually for subjects that might not meet the notability threshold of Wikipedia or subjects for which there might not yet be sufficient verifiable references. Perhaps I could more accurately describe myself as a "Wikimedian" than a "Wikipedian".

I participate regularly in the Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia WikiSalons.

On January 1, 2022, the article I originated on the Christian Street Historic District achieved Did You Know status. The article about Curtis Imrie was a DYK on August 9, 2022.

As of February 2022, the article on Calutron Girls achieved Good Article status, an article for which I completed extensive upgrades.

In October 2022, I completed NPP Reviewer training and became an approved New Page Reviewer effective October 24, 2022.

Beginning on August 13, 2022, I began serving as a reviewer for articles nominated for Good Article status. As of August 22, 2022, I have completed three GA nomination reviews (passing two and failing one).

In October 2019, I received my first barnstar.

In August 2022, I awarded my first barnstar.

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