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OK to delete this image. I was under the impression it was copyright free but it isn't. -- cbrody

T Peter Brody
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 * There is a potential conflict of interest (WP:COI) here so please be careful of your sources. In particular, as I have said elsewhere, reference both the Early Life and career and Awards and Honours sections with reliable source (WP:RS) references. If in doubt, consult me on my talk page and I will help as necessary
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 * consider editing Brody (name) and Active-matrix liquid crystal display to reflect the new article you created

--Senra (Talk) 10:34, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Active Matrix
Factoid: The OED credits the noun active matrix to 1975 T P Brody et al as the inventors of the term. You can use this in your article with the expression:

which results in

or alternatively and more explicitly

resulting in

OED (2011) active matrix " T. P. Brody et al. in IEEE Trans. Electron Devices 22 740/1 The difficulties and limitations of passive matrix-addressed displays‥have led us to explore ‘active’ matrixes, i.e., matrixes which contain gain-producing and switching elements at their points of intersection"

--Senra (Talk) 16:57, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:TP Brody with early AM-LCD screen.jpg


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A kitten for you!
Just to show my appreciation for your recent efforts on Wikipedia.

Senra (Talk) 21:18, 12 October 2011 (UTC) 

Early life and career section
Cbrody, I have discovered that the first section of your article on T Peter Brody is a mixture of direct quotes from the Information Display memoriam and close paraphrasing of the text, without an inline citation for attribution. You need to read the Wikipedia plagiarism policy.

I can see that it will be hard to substantially reword this material if it's your only citable source for his early life and career, but you need to find a way. And time is running out for the DYK nomination - Oct 12 is now second from the top of the active list. RockMagnetist (talk) 04:34, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I have added a citation from the Pittsburgh obituary. I think this obituary would help you to reword the section. RockMagnetist (talk) 04:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for this. A difficult one as the original (from which SID and others largely copied) was written by a combination of my father (as per his CV), his colleagues, myself and my sisters. The original document is here: [T P Brody]. This doc of course doesn't fulfil the WP:RS qualifications. --Cbrody (talk) 14:50, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * This situation is certainly full of ironies! RockMagnetist (talk) 15:03, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * If it helps, I keep plodding through this. For example, I wrote to the University of London yesterday (and received an automated reply saying student records would charge me £15 to confirm the degree, PhD and lecturing so that was a no no for me) and I also wrote to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London asking for confirmed information. I had thought of writing to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office formerly the FO re his SOE work but decided not to (Official Secrets Act). I will continue to plug away. However, if you want my opinion, I would bin whatever is in the early life section at the moment and put cited prose back later :) --Senra (Talk) 16:04, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think that is necessary. Straight news articles (not opinion pieces) satisfy the reliable source policy. I don't know whether the Information Display qualifies; but one source will do for now. But the rewrite is essential. RockMagnetist (talk) 16:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

On a separate note - how about the phrase "... one of the early pioneers ..."? --Senra (Talk) 16:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Since this is a new subject, I have removed your indentations. Where do you want to use this phrase?RockMagnetist (talk) 16:12, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Trying to think outside the box here. Cbrody (naturally) wishes to say that Brody developed the technology yet the references do not support this so I was thinking, perhaps in the article and the DYK hook to use that phrase --Senra (Talk) 16:20, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Just tried a google scholar search using the search term "Brody T P". I am not very familiar with how to use google scholar so I leave others to interpret these results. 28,000 results seems to me, a layman in this context, too many - though I did notice some false positives, such as the JA Brody on the third page --Senra (Talk) 18:39, 17 October 2011 (UTC)


 * I then restricted another google scholar search to 1945+ and the three topics "Physics, Astronomy, and Planetary Science", "Chemistry and Materials Science" and "Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics" resulting in 131 hits including ...
 * This paper, A light interrupter of continuously variable on-off ratio may be the earliest paper by T Peter Brody that is indexed online. I notice that the paper includes his post noms. I am not sure but you may be able to use the paper as a source for “Brody received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1953 from the University of London. From 1953 to 1959, he worked as Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University”


 * I count seven papers by Brody tagged Westinghouse between 1962 (Nature of the Valley Current in Tunnel Diodes) and 1975 (Thin film transistor-addressed display device). Again, I am not sure but these may be enough to confirm his tenure at Westinghouse
 * --Senra (Talk) 19:22, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Your article is really close now. There are just those two remaining paragraphs in Early Life and Career, and then I'll happily clear it for DYK. RockMagnetist (talk) 19:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

Next steps for the T P Brody article
You may be happy with the progress that the article T Peter Brody has made since its first creation on 6 October 2011 using the Wikipedia article creation process. On the other hand, you may wish to take the article further. For example, you could consider submitting the article to the peer review process which would be followed by a Good Article nomination then a Featured Article nomination. There is no guarantee that an article will succeed at any one stage and each stage is progressively harder than next. In my opinion the article in its current state would sail through a peer review. The peer review process would be simpler for you if, once you have submitted the article, you recruit a volunteer as recommended on the Wikipedia:Peer review page. Good luck --Senra (Talk) 11:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Talk page archival
You may wish to consider archiving aged discussions on your talk page using one of the methods suggested at Archiving a talk page. There are automated methods that are suitable for users with busy talk pages. I use a manual method as described at the top right of my own talk page --Senra (Talk) 11:16, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

For the record, since I posted above, I have changed my archive method to automatic. I now use a variation of 's method as described here. To see my code, feel free to edit my talk page then view the archive code at the top of the page --Senra (Talk) 21:16, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

DYK for T Peter Brody
Well done, thanks from the DYK project Victuallers (talk) 00:02, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

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