Talk:Peter F. C. Gilbert

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A verifiability note

I am just adding a note for aiding verifiability here during the review process. The following is a news article in the Evening Chronicle (it has not been cited in this Wikipedia article):

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/crash-familys-legal-victory-1639070

The Evening Chronicle is a regional newspaper for the Newcastle area in the North East of England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening_Chronicle)

This newspaper article mentions a “Dr Peter Gilbert” near the beginning of the article. It refers to him again later on in the article, “Dr Gilbert, owner of Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Club and part-time research scientist in neuroscience at University College, London,...”

Therefore, this newspaper article aids in verifiability for this Wikipedia draft article in a number of ways:

1. It indicates that this Dr Peter Gilbert is the Peter Gilbert mentioned in one of the references in the draft Wikipedia article, namely the Peter Gilbert mentioned on page 16 of the 100th edition of the Old Novocastrians Magazine by Jane Medcalf (2017). If you check that reference, it refers to a “...present owner Peter Gilbert...” of a “...golf course there in Embleton bay...”. There is only one golf course in Embleton Bay, namely Dunstanburgh Castle Golf Course, which is the name of the golf course mentioned in the Evening Chronicle newspaper article above.

2. It supports the assertion that Dr Peter Gilbert grew up and was educated in Newcastle, because it places him in the area and it also places the late parents of a Dr Peter Gilbert as living in North Tyneside (the Newcastle area).

3. It supports the assertion that this Dr Peter Gilbert of the Newcastle area is the same Dr Peter Gilbert who is a neuroscience researcher affiliated with UCL and who has published some papers with that UCL affiliation (see, for example Cerebellar function: on-line control and learning on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=JW6-b0QAAAAJ&hl=en)

A notability note

I would also like to add a note for aiding in judgement for notability.

Peter Gilbert is already mentioned in a current Wikipedia article, the one on the Cerebellum (a part of the brain), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellum#Learning . It is written in that Wikipedia article that he performed a “pioneering study” with Thach in 1977. In the world of neuroscience, this was clearly a very significant discovery.

Furthermore, Peter Gilbert has also produced remarkable work in another field, namely that of biophysics and molecular biology. He is the creator of the SIRT algorithm (SIRT is mentioned in another Wikipedia article on algorithms of tomographic reconstruction, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomographic_reconstruction#Tomographic_reconstruction_software). Despite his leaving the field in 1974 and permanently moving into neuroscience since then, he has nevertheless continued to receive credit for his work in the field – there are numerous independent sources confirming him as the creator, e.g. some of the references used in this draft Wikipedia article like Gregor and Benson (July 2008), Herman (2009) etc.). See also Peter F. C. Gilbert's Google Scholar page to see how his 1972 paper (the SIRT paper) is increasingly being cited today as its applications become ever more relevant.

Alexlifelike (talk) 09:27, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]