Freeman, Gordon R.
Professor Emeritus Phone: (780) 492-3468 Department of Chemistry University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2G2 |
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Stonehenge and Majorville Sun Temples
Canada's
Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries in Canada, England, and Wales
Observational Archaeoastronomy
The first
Centre for Interdisciplinary Science in Alberta was the Radiation Research
Centre, which I designed in 1964 by broadening the concept of an Institute in
Manchester, England. It was built in 1964/5 and I Directed it until retirement
in1995. Research included Radiation Chemistry and Physics, Electronics,
Astrophysics, Radiation Zoology, Botany and Genetics, and a little Medicine and
Food Science. Studies broadened to generalized nonlinear dynamics and changes
in complex systems. The overall field is called Kinetics of Nonhomogeneous
Processes (KNP). Three books were published:
·
Kinetics
of Nonhomogeneous Processes: A practical introduction for Chemists, Biologists,
Physicists, and Materials Scientists, ed. Gordon R. Freeman, Wiley-Interscience,
New York, 1987.
·
Proceedings
of the International Conference on Kinetics of Nonhomogeneous Processes, ed. Gordon R.
Freeman, Canadian Journal of Physics, Sept. 1990 issue, volume 68, pages
655-1111.
· Canada's Stonehenge: Astounding Archaeological Discoveries
in Canada, England, and Wales, Kingsley Publishing, 293 +xviii, 2009.
Pattern
recognition is a powerful tool that assists understanding of similar behavior
in seemingly unrelated systems. Similar patterns are generated by analogous
mechanisms.
Interdisciplinary
studies are a prominent way of the future in the Physical, Life and Social
Sciences, and in the Arts.
Publications:
G.R. Freeman, "Hidden
Stonehenge", 2nd edition, Watkins Publishing, England, March 2012. www.dbponline.co.uk; http://www.watkinspublishing.co.uk
G.R. Freeman,
"Global warming", American Physical Society, Forum on Physics and Society, 2006, 35 (No. 2),
4-5.
G.R. Freeman,
"The Art of Science", Fifty3, 2006, 7 (No. 2), pages 7, 22, 23.
G.R. Freeman,
"Teaching Quantum Mechanics", University Affairs, 2005, June, page 5.
G.R. Freeman,
P.J. Freeman, 2001. "Observational Archaeoastronomy at Stonehenge: Winter Solstice
Sun Rise and Set Lines Accurate to 0.2° in 4000 BP", 33rd Annual Meeting,
Canadian Archaeological Association, Ottawa 2000. Proceedings; Eds. J.-L.
Pilon, M. Kirby, C. Thériault. Ontario Archaeological Soc. and Canadian
Archaeological Assoc., pp 200-219. National Library of Canada site.
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/ont_archaeol_soc/annual_meeting_caa/33rd/ottawa2000proceedings.htm
G.R. Freeman,
P.J. Freeman, 2001. "Observational Archaeoastronomy at the Majorville
Medicine Wheel Complex: Winter and Summer Solstice Sun Rise and Set Alignments
Accurate to 0.2°", 33rd Annual Meeting, Canadian Archaeological
Association, Ottawa 2000. Proceedings; Eds. J.-L. Pilon, M. Kirby, C.
Thériault. Ontario Archaeological Soc. and Canadian Archaeological Assoc., pp
220-229. National Library of Canada site.
http://collection.nlc-bnc.ca/100/200/300/ont_archaeol_soc/annual_meeting_caa/33rd/ottawa2000proceedings.htm
G.R. Freeman,
"Sacred Rocks of Alberta: Description of Eleven Glyphed Boulders, a
Meteorite, and Their Sites," University of Alberta Archives, Edmonton,
Accession No. 2000-44. 126 pp. manuscript including index, 531 annotated
photos, 3 sketches, 14 site maps, about 1368 photo negatives and prints.
G.R. Freeman,
N.H. March, "How Might Chemical Reaction Rates in Solution be Affected by
Intense Density Fluctuations of the Solvent?", Physics and Chemistry of Liquids 1999, 37, 627-631.
G.R. Freeman,
N.H. March, "Triboelectricity and Some Associated Phenomena", Mater. Sci. Tech.
1999, 15, 1454-1458.
G.R. Freeman,
L.D. Coulson, N.H. March, "On the Ehrenberg-Siday- Aharonov-Bohm (ESAB)
and Aharonov-Casher (AC) Effects", Mod. Phys. Lett. B 1998, 12, 933-942.