This book has been eight years in the making. It is mostly a jumble of thoughts written down in old spiral notebooks and hidden in the bottom drawer underneath various manuals for software packages and hardware long since turned obsolete.
Les Golden, Renaissance Man, is an astronomer/professor, actor/stand-up comic, musician, card-counter, writer/cartoonist, environmentalist/animal welfare advocate. An identical twin, he was graduated from Cornell Univ.(B.S., M. Engr. Physics) and the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D, astronomy). He's best known as a gambling columnist for British magazines, his political activism, and as di
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Major Influences: Knowles Cooke (theatre), Nina Grace Smith (writing), Frank Drake (astronomy), David W. Tucker (jazz),William J. Welch (astronomy), Del Close (improvisation), and Edward O. Thorp (card counting)
Birth Place
Chicago, IL U.S.A.
Accomplishments
Eric Hoffer and Lili Fabilli Laconic Essay Prize, the Griffith Observatory Science Writing Competition, the International Compuserve Magazine Essay Contest, First Prize in the Nicolaus Copernicus International Essay Competition (American Council of Polish Cultural Clubs, Phi Beta Kappa (arts and sciences), Tau Beta Pi (engineering), Pi Delta Epsilon (journalism), Who’s Who in Science and Technology, Who’s Who in the World, Fellow of American Institute for Economic Research (Great Barrington, Massachusetts), National Research Council Resident Research Associateship
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