Abstract

Education

• Sc.D., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964
• S.M., Nuclear Engineering, Massachusetts, Institute of Technology, 1958
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1957

Experience

1. Guest Scientist, Radiation Physics and Thermodynamics, Joint Research Center,
   Ispra, Italy, 1989-1990 (while on leave from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia).
2. Guest Scientist, Radiation Physics and Thermodynamics, Joint Research Center,
   Ispra, Italy, summer 1987.
3. Research Participant, Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Maryland, summer 1984.
4. Guest Scientist, Fast Reactor Safety Group, Joint Research Center, Ispra Italy, 1981-1982 (while on leave from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia).
5. Guest Scientist, Institute fur Reaktorentwicklung, Der Kernforschungsanlage Julich, West Germany, summer 1980.
6. Research Participant, Engineering Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
   Oak Ridge, Tennessee, summer 1979.
7. Guest Scientist, Institute fur Reaktorentwicklung, Der Kernforschungsanlage Julich, West Germany, 1975- 1976 (while on leave from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia).
8. Nuclear Engineer, Reactor Kinetics and Stability Group, General Electric Company, Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, 1966-1970.
9. Visiting Scientist, Nuclear Chemistry Division, Reactor Spectrum Measurements Group, Euratom Laboratory, Ispra, Italy, 1964-1966.
10. Visitor, Physics Research Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston,  Massachusetts, various periods of time between 1961 and 1977.
11. Engineer, Preliminary Plant Engineering Group, Westinghouse Atomic Power Department, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1958-1960.
12. Coop, Electronics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, 3 quarters, 1956-1957.

Honor Societies, Scholarships, Fellowships, Professional Societies

• Academic Scholarship, Northwestern University
• Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies Fellowships, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 3 years
• Sigma Xi, Science Honorary
• Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honorary
• Eta Kappa Nu, Electrical Engineering Honorary
• American Nuclear Society
• Reviewer for Nuclear Science and Engineering and Nuclear Technology
• Student ANS Chapter Advisor, 1982-1987
• Executive Committee, ANS Reactor Physics Division, 1981-1984
• ANS Meetings, Proceedings and Transactions Publications Committee, 1979-1982
• Executive Committee, ANS Mathematics and Computation Division, 1978-1981
• Who\'s Who in Technology
• Who\'s Who in the South and Southwest

From the author's webpage:

In about March 2003 I formally commenced part-time candidature for the PhD in the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Professor John K. Webb. The support supervisor was Professor Michael Ashley. I was initially engaged in the development of a computer simulation program in relation to Extra-Solar Planets.

About a year later I began work on General Relativity as a sideline. After a few months I came up with a result that proved black holes inconsistent with General Relativity. I presented this to Professor Webb. He was initially enthusiastic, and even arranged for me to deliver a lecture to his undergraduate General Relativity class. Before my informing him, Webb had never heard of Schwarzschild's original solution.

Read the entire story of my explusion from UNSW at: http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/PhD.html

Sgt A* has been carefully studied by the astronomers Gillessen, Genzel and Eisenhaur, of the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics, and they too have proposed a black hole there. However, in correspondence with them (Gillessen their spokesman), they admitted to me, in writing, that not only did they not find a black hole at Sgt A*, but that nobody has ever found a black hole anywhere, contrary to the claims for black holes having been found all over the place. I made their admissions public here: www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/Gillessen.html