User:Nolabob

I currently reside in Denver, Colorado, in the United States. For many years, I resided in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where I lived when I first began contributions to the Wikipedia and some of its sister projects. I still spend a significant amount of time in Pennsylvania.

I earned a PhD in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, which explains my particular interest in matters related to Chemistry and Materials on the Wikipedia.

I was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, which explains why I have done so much Wikipedia editing on matters related to New Orleans. I am also an alumnus of Tulane University in New Orleans with a BS in Chemistry, having graduated from Jesuit High School of New Orleans in 1974.

Original Articles, listed below in the order in which I wrote them. Perhaps the quality improved as I became more experienced. • #Hap Glaudi, sports journalist

• #Mel Leavitt, television journalist and historian

• #Charles L. Dufour, humorist and writer

• #Charles C. Bass, innovator in medicine and dentistry

• #Adrien de Pauger, cartographer for the original design of New Orleans

• #James A. Knight, medical ethicist

• #Abraham Louis Levin, medical innovator

• #Irish Bayou, community in New Orleans

• #Stanhope Bayne-Jones, medical scientist

• #Southern Regional Research Center, research on agriculture and agricultural products

• #Alexander John Drysdale, artist

• #Paul E. Poincy, artist

• #Andres Molinary, artist

• #William C. Drinkard, scientist and inventor

• #Beulah Levy Ledner, pastry chef

• #Frank Joseph Davis, writer and television journalist

• #Nylon Rope Trick, scientific demonstration

• #My Brother's Keeper Challenge

• #Maria Vicenta Rosal, Latin American religious leader and feminist

• #Herbert S. Eleuterio, scientist and inventor

• #Constant C. Dejoie, Sr., civic leader and businessman

• #Robert Bledsoe Mayfield, artist

• #Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

• #Eleanor McMain, leader of progressive movements

• #Barcelona Guitar Orchestra

• #Albert W. Dent, civic leader and academic administrator

• #Edgar B. Stern Sr, philanthropist

• #Michael T. Dugan, academic

• #Clifton H. Johnson, historian

• #Cary 14 Spectrophotometer, scientific instrument

• #Arnold Thackray, science historian

• #Dog Aging Project

• #Mardi Gras Doubloons

• #Jerome LeDoux, priest

• #Arthur Perry, college basketball coach

• #Bayou Metairie, stranded distributary in southeast Louisiana

• #Bartholomew Fussell, abolitionist

• #Edith Rosenwald Stern, philanthropist

• #Charles E. Fenner, New Orleans businessperson of Merrill Lynch fame

• #Nehemiah Atkinson, professional tennis player and coach in New Orleans

• #Royal D. Suttkus, ichthyologist, founder of a major collection of fishes

• #New Orleans Recreation Department

• #Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans

• #William C. Edenborn, Louisiana industrialist and inventor

• #Paul Crawford, jazz musician and historian

• #Curtis and Davis Architects and Engineers

• #Leon C. Weiss, "Huey Long's architect"

• #Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets, early big box retailer

• #Sara T. Mayo, physician and humanitarian reformer

• #Werlein's for Music, long-standing music retailer and publisher that served New Orleans

• #Christian Street Historic District, aka Black Doctors' Row

• #Leon C. Megginson, noted for his clarifying statement about Darwinism

• #Robert W. Tebbs, architectural photographer noted for photoessay of defunct plantation homes

• #Hogan Jazz Archive of Tulane University

• #Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, musician, professor, inventor

• #Elijah F. Pennypacker, abolitionist

• #Basilica of St. Stephen (New Orleans)

• #Curtis Imrie, pack burro racer

• #Jean-Louis Dolliole, architect who was a free person of color

• #Lory Schaff, leader in adult literacy education

• #Herman Neugass, Athlete and Olympic boycotter

• #A Studio in the Woods, environmental art studio

• #Richard Koch, architectural preservationist and photographer

• #Leonard Spangenberg, New Orleans architect

• #New Orleans Arts and Crafts Club, organization for modernist art & historic preservation

• #Mona Minkara, scientist & advocate for the visually impaired

• #Shipcarpenter Square, historic residential neighborhood in Lewes

• #L'Union, African-American newspaper

• #Solari's, gourmet food store in New Orleans

• #Le Moniteur De La Louisiane, First newspaper in Louisiana

Significant Contributions to: • #George E. Burch, medical researcher

• #List of people from New Orleans, Louisiana

• #William Bruce Mumford, figure in the US Civil War

• #National World War II Museum

• #Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans

• #Irish Channel, New Orleans

• #My Gal Sal, historical aircraft

• #Jesuit Bend, Louisiana

• #John Churchill Chase, editorial cartoonist

• #Rachel Lloyd, scientist

• #Earl L. Muetterties, scientist

• #Wayne Mack, television journalist

• #Mr. Bingle, fictional character

• #Amistad Research Center

• #pH Meter, scientific instrument

• #Spectronic 20, scientific instrument

• #Eamon Kelly, Tulane University administrator

• #Explorer Wendell Phillips

• #Albert C. Ledner, architect

• #Scientific celebrity

• #George Bissell, pioneer of the oil industry in the United States

• #Struble Trail, multi-use recreational trail in Chester County, PA

• #Ernie Freeman, jazz musician

• #Holt Cemetery, historic potter's field in New Orleans

• #Wilhelm Ostwald, scientist, father of physical chemistry

• #Saul Hertz, physician-scientist

• #Annie Trumbull Slosson, fiction writer and entomologist

• #Chalmette National Cemetery

• #Otto Schott, inventor of high quality optics

• #Ralph E. Oesper, science historian

• #Klaus Grutzka, industrial artist

• #Antonio Neri, priest and pioneer in the science of glass-making

• #Philip P. Werlein, music publisher and retailer

• #Amelia Laskey, ornithologist and autodidact

• #Calutron Girls, a group of Manhattan Project workers

• #Virginia Holsinger, food scientist

• #John Duffy, medical historian

• #Agnes Pockels, colloid scientist and autodidact

• #Walter Lear, physician and social activist

• #Joan Luedders Wolfe, environmental activist

• #Althea Sherman, ornithologist

• #Cordelia Stanwood, ornithologist

• #Henri Devaux, surface scientist & religious philosopher

• #Alan Charlton, British diplomat

• #Langenstein's, local grocery store chain in New Orleans

• #St. Frances Cabrini Church, RC Church built in a modernist design

• #Sasha Suda, CEO of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

• #Ernest Lagarde, literary scholar of Louisiana Creole descent (mostly copyediting)

• # Pine Grove Furnace Prisoner of War Interrogation Camp, WWII facility in PA

• # Christopher Drew, investigative journalist

• # Robert H. Socolow, environmental scientist

• # Edward Baquet, Creole restaurateur & civil rights activist

• # Arnaud's, older, well-established Louisiana Creole restaurant

I have edited many other articles, too numerous to list here. I started contributing to the Wikipedia in February 2011. In addition, I have uploaded many photographs to the Wikimedia Commons and am beginning contributions to Wikivoyage. I usually have something under development in my sandboxes:


 * E. William Jensen
 * Green Valley Ranch
 * Thomas H. Clancy, S.J.
 * Annabelle Bernard, New Orleans born opera singer

I have interest at present in upgrading the articles on Nina Floy Bracelin, and gas lighting, as well as several others not listed here.

I have a test platform. Here is a user subpage with a list of tools.

Beginning in March 2017, I volunteered to assist the Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Science History Institute. In this capacity, I have made significant contributions to, edited extensively, or originated, the articles listed below. The position of Wikipedian-in-Residence at the Science History Institute ceased to exist as a result of the economic downturn from the 2020 global pandemic.
 * 1) pH Meter, scientific instrument
 * 2) Spectronic 20, scientific instrument
 * 3) Cary 14 Spectrophotometer, scientific instrument
 * 4) Arnold Thackray, science historian
 * 5) Leroy Hood, biologist, inventor of several scientific instruments
 * 6) Carl Axel Arrhenius, early chemist, research led to discovery of several elements
 * 7) Nils Johan Berlin, early chemist, devised means of separating rare earth elements
 * 8) Jöns Jacob Berzelius, chemist, important in the early history of the field
 * 9) Christian Wilhelm Blomstrand, Swedish chemist who made contributions to the forerunner of the periodic table
 * 10) Bohuslav Brauner, Czech chemist who contributed to understanding periodicity, atomic weights and rare earth chemistry
 * 11) Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, chemist, discoverer of several elements, pioneer in the field of spectroscopy
 * 12) Fritz Strassmann, nuclear chemist whose pioneering research led to discovery of nuclear fission.
 * 13) Harold G. Richter, nuclear chemist and environmental chemist
 * 14) Friedrich Wöhler, early pioneer in organic chemistry
 * 15) Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist

In December 2019, I created my first article for Wikiquote, that on Julius Rosenwald. This link is to my WikiQuote user page which lists my original articles for Wikiquote. I also originate WikiData items, usually for subjects that might not meet the notability threshold of Wikipedia or subjects for which there might not yet be sufficient verifiable references. Perhaps I could more accurately describe myself as a "Wikimedian" than a "Wikipedian".

I participate regularly in the Meetup/Philadelphia WikiSalons.

On January 1, 2022, the article I originated on the Christian Street Historic District achieved Did You Know status. The article about Curtis Imrie was a DYK on August 9, 2022.

As of February 2022, the article on Calutron Girls achieved Good Article status, an article for which I completed extensive upgrades.

In October 2022, I completed NPP Reviewer training and became an approved New Page Reviewer effective October 24, 2022.

Beginning on August 13, 2022, I began serving as a reviewer for articles nominated for Good Article status. As of August 22, 2022, I have completed three GA nomination reviews (passing two and failing one).

In October 2019, I received my first barnstar.

In August 2022, I awarded my first barnstar.