User:Tomgally

My name is Tom Gally, and I am a teacher, lexicographer, and former translator living in Yokohama, Japan.

I contributed to Wikipedia from September 2004 until around 2007, and I hope to find time to start contributing again. Some articles I started are the following:


 * Thomas Blount, Catalina Island Conservancy (stub), Ian Frazier, Donald Grant Mitchell, Joseph Mitchell, Nagai Kafu, Otsuki Fumihiko, Polyglot (book), Portative organ, Positive organ, Regal, Roger Twysden, Shincho (stub), Silent letter, Calvin Trillin, Yu Miri

And here are some images I contributed:


 * Chinese restaurant in Katsushika-ku, Tokyo, in the articles Chinese cuisine and Japanese Chinese cuisine
 * Frets on a guitar neck in the article Fret
 * Summertime beach in Avalon, California

Some non-Wiki things I have created are at Gally.Net.

Chemistry articles
In 2004 and 2005, when Wikipedia was still young, I supervised first-year doctoral students in chemistry at the University of Tokyo with the preparation of Wikipedia articles in their areas of expertise. Among the articles that the students created or expanded are:


 * Absorption isotherm, Apicophilicity, Arming yeast, Atrane, Azobenzene, Azo compound, Beryllium oxide, &#946;-peptide, BET theory, BINAP, Bipyridine, Bond dissociation energy, Borabenzene, Carbonado (diamond), Charge transfer complex, Chirped pulse amplification, Chromism, Clathrate compound, Columnar phase, Conotoxin, Critical micelle concentration, Crown ether, Cyclic voltammetry, Cyclopentadienyl complex, Cyclophilin, Degasification, Dendrimer, Dephasing, Depolarization ratio, Diarylethene, Dielectric dispersion, Differential pulse voltammetry, Dihydrogen bond, Diphosphene, Dipolar polarization, Disilene, Dye-sensitized solar cells, Dynamic Monte Carlo method, Elastic scattering, Electrochemical scanning tunneling microscope, Electrostatic lens, Excimer, Ferrocene, Flack parameter, Fluorescence resonance energy transfer, Gas electron diffraction, Helicene, Heteroepitaxy, High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy, Hiyama coupling, Homoepitaxy, Homeotropic alignment, Hoogsteen base pair, Hot atom, Hydroformylation, Hydrogenase, Hydrogen-terminated silicon surface, Hypervalent molecule, Incompatible element, Inelastic mean free path, Inelastic scattering, Inter valence charge transfer, Inverse photoemission spectroscopy, Ionic liquid, Ionic radius, Ionic polarization, Ionization gauge, Kaminsky catalyst, Kelvin probe force microscope, Koichi Tanaka, Light dressed state, Lipid raft, Liquid crystal, Magnetic force microscope, MCP-RHEED, Mesogen, Mesoporous material, Methylthiomethyl ether, Miraculin, Mitogen-activated protein kinase, Mitotoxin, Molecular imprinting, Molecular recognition, Non-Kekulé molecule, Okadaic acid, Optical parametric amplifier, Organic semiconductor, Oxime, Peptide synthesis, Phase problem, Phosphaalkyne, Phosphorine, Photoisomerization, Phthalocyanine, Pi-pi interaction, Plasma acceleration, Plating, Photochromic complex, Photoelectrochemical cell, Polypyridine complex, Ponderomotive force, Post-metallocene catalyst, Post-perovskite, Protein splicing, Proton Sponge, Radical initiator, Raman spectroscopy, Reporter gene assay, Scanning tunneling spectroscopy, Scavenger receptor, Signal peptide, Silabenzene, Silanol, Silylene, Single-molecule magnet, Solid base, Solid electrolyte interface (Lithium ion battery), Solid-phase synthesis, Sonogashira coupling, Sticking probability, Stille cross coupling, Super hydrophilicity, Supramolecular chemistry, Surface core level shift, Surface selection rule, Symplectic integrator, Synchrotron radiation, Temperature desorption spectroscopy, Terpyridine, Total internal reflection fluorescence microscope, Transition metal carbene complex, Triphenylene, Triple-stranded DNA, Trouton's rule, Tunnel ionization, Vacuoles in budding yeast cells, Vaterite, Vibrational energy relaxation, X-ray absorption fine structure, XMCD