Draft:Bill Lauritzen
Bill Lauritzen is a polymath and former athlete.
Swimming
[edit]In 1968 Bill was the Illinois State Swimming Champion in the 100 yard breaststroke.[1]At the USAF Academy he lettered in swimming all four years and was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.[2] In 1988 he was ranked 5th nationally in the 50 meter, 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke in U.S. Masters Swimming.[3]
Writings and Designs
[edit]In 1994 Bill was invited by Nobel Laureate Sir Harold Kroto to show his models of Carbon-60, and to present a theoretical paper on the strength of the molecule at the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Buckminsterfullerene molecule.[4]
Also in the 1990s, he designed a base 12 number system.[5]
From 2010 until 2018, he worked in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University, China. He also did technical editing for the Brain-Like Intelligent Systems Lab. He was interviewed by the Xiamen University magazine about his life and his creativity.[6]
In 2011 he self-published a book entitled The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion. He is working on a followup book entitled "Atoms and Souls: The Prehistoric Origins of Science and Religion," and a Children's STEM book entitled "Tommy Turtle and Rebecca Rabbit at the Rabbit School."
In 2013 he published "Can a Machine Have a Soul?" in the Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness.[7]
He is also on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.ihsa.org/data/swb/records/ybyyr3.htm
- ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/goairforcefalcons.com/documents/2018/7/12/prospectus_ms.pdf
- ^ https://www.usms.org/comp/tt/toptenlist.php?CourseID=2&Year=1988&Sex=M&AgeGroupID=4
- ^ https://www.earth360.com/present_model.html
- ^ https://dozenal.org/drupal/sites_bck/default/files/DuodecimalBulletinIssue3b1-web_0.pdf
- ^ http://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA3OTM1MTIzNQ==&mid=202189510&idx=1&sn=62a811bb421e003524147b16a9bfd009#rd
- ^ http://www.terasemjournals.org/PCJournal/PC0801/Papers/Lauritzen_APA.pdf
- ^ https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.william.lauritzen