Draft:Bill Lauritzen

Bill Lauritzen is an athlete and polymath.

Swimming
In 1968 he was the Illinois State Swimming Champion in the 100 yard breaststroke. At the USAF Academy he lettered in swimming all four years and was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. In 1988 he was ranked 5th nationally in the 50 meter, 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke in U.S. Masters Swimming.

Writings and Designs
In 1994 Bill was invited by Nobel laureate Sir Harold Kroto to show his models of Carbon-60 at the First International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Buckminsterfullerene molecule.

Also in the 1990s, he designed a base 12 number system.

From 2010 until 2018, he worked in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University, China, where he was interviewed by the University magazine about his life and his creativity.

In 2011 he self-published a book entitled The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion.

In 2013 he published "Can a Machine Have a Soul?" in the Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness.

He is also on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.