Talk:Shaiwatna Kupratakul

POV Check

At present this risks reading like a resume. The lists of publications needs to be trimmed, as Wikipedia isn't a CV host. -- Bfigura ^(talk) 03:17, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced info

Some of the information given has been unreferenced since 2009. I am moving it - ie removing it from the article - and placing it here on the talk page.

If it can be referenced, please add it back;

• Professional appointments and activities

Kupratakul has also participated in the following activities and engagements:

• Assistant Professor of Physics, during 1974–1981
• Associate Professor of Physics, since 1981.
• Executive committee member, Asian Physical Society, (APSO), 1979.
• Vice-President, Asian Science Communicators Organization, (ASCO), 1980.
• Member, the Science Society of Thailand, since 1972.
• Member, the Writers’ Association of Thailand, since 1976.
• Member, P.E.N. International Thailand Center, since 1976.
• Chairmean, Science Writers’ and Publishers’ Group of Thailand, 1984.

• Publication

Writer, editor, columnist, and translator of science and non-science, fiction and non-fiction articles, essays, short stories, novels and books for young and general readers including textbooks on physics and physical science. Altogether, more than 100 books, written or translated, have been published.

Since 1970, articles, essays, features, columns, short stories and novels by Shaiwatna Kupratakuln (also under pen names of Shaikupt, Tachyon, Watanachai, Sriwat, etc.) have appeared in several newspapers and magazines.

• Radio and television

Shaiwatna Kuppatakuln has been hosting or co-hosting or producing or serving as commentator several radio programmes both in Khon Kaen (during 1970–1982) and in Bangkok (since 1982). The main purpose of most radio programmers are to communicate and popularize science to the general public. Except many short radio programmers (of 2–3 minutes long) which have been prerecorded, most of the radio programmes are live and interacting with the audiences. Examples of the radio programmes banners are: Science and You (วิทยาศาสตร์และท่าน), Life and Universe (ชีวิตกับจักรวาล), Life and Science (ชีวิตกับวิทยาศาสตร์), Colorful Life With Science (สีสันชีวิตกับวิทยาศาสตร์), Scientific Wisdom (ภูมิปัญญากับวิทยาศาสตร์), For the Future (สาระเพื่ออนาคต), etc.

On television, Shaiwatna Kupratakul has also been hosting or co-hosting or producing many television programmes starting at Khon Kaen national television station (Channel 5 Khon Kaen) since about 1970 until 1982 and continued doing so in Bangkok to the present. As in radio programmes, the main purposes of Shaiwatna Kupratakul television activities are on communicating and popularizing science to general public.

Examples of the television programmes hosted by Shaiwatna Kupratakul are: Science And You (วิทยาศาสตร์และท่าน), Keeping Up With World Progress (ทันโลกก้าวหน้า), Science And Life Update (ทันโลก ทันชีวิต), The Path Of The Future (วิถีอนาคต), etc.

Shaiwatna Kupratakul has been a regular guest on radio and television programmes to explain unusual or strange natural or man-made phenomena and to inform the public on major scientific developments.

• Research fields

Shaiwatna Kupatakul major research interests are on the energy band structures of noble metals, the pressure effects on the energy band structures of noble metals and solar energy. His Ph.D. thesis is "The Electron Band Structures Calculation of Gold By The APW Method". His major Ph.D. works were published as "Electron Band Structure of Gold", J Phys. C. (Solid State Physics), 1969, p. 1886−1887, with his mentor and co-author, Prof. G.C. Fletcher; and "Relativistic Electron Band Structure of Gold", S Phys. C. (Solid State Physics), 1970, p. S109−S119.

• Research related to published works

Short science stories written by Shaiwatna Kupatakul (mostly under the pen name of Shaikupt) have been a research topic carried out by Pornsiri Narkwatchara (พรศิริ นาควัชระ) as part of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Thai, Department of Thai, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The thesis entitled “An Analytic Study of Shaikupt's Science Fiction" (การศึกษาเชิงวิเคราะห์เรื่องสั้นแนววิทยาศาสตร์ของชัยคุปต์) was submitted successfully for the academic year 1999. In the thesis, Pornsiri Narkwatchara based her research on 130 short science stories.

Igor the facetious xmas bunny (talk) 09:58, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

I completely agree with Igor's deletion above. Most of this article is still unreferenced and should not have been added back, in my opinion. I have tried to clean up and de-resumé the text, and re-removed the following section:

Research related to published works

Short science stories written by Shaiwatna Kupatakul (mostly under the pen name of Shaikupt) have been a research topic carried out by Pornsiri Narkwatchara (พรศิริ นาควัชระ) as part of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Thai, Department of Thai, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. The thesis entitled "An Analytic Study of Shaikupt's Science Fiction" (การศึกษาเชิงวิเคราะห์เรื่องสั้นแนววิทยาศาสตร์ของชัยคุปต์) was submitted successfully for the academic year 1999. In the thesis, Pornsiri Narkwatchara based her research on 130 short science stories.

In addition, I moved his thesis publications to 'external links'.

Finally, isn't 'consolation prize' just another way of saying that he didn't win?

This entire article REALLY needs unbiased references.

Leschnei (talk) 23:43, 6 June 2016 (UTC)