KØXB - Rick at
I like to tell people I
am a professional ham radio operator and professional fisherman. Once you are
retired, I guess you can say things like that. For more than fifty years I have
had a ham license, and I learned to love fishing from my Dad earlier than that.
Finally, I can spend a lot of time on my hobbies.
I wanted to be a Physicist
since junior high school, and I’m pleased that I was able to spend my career
doing that. I received Bachelor's and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and I am currently a member of the MIT
Educational Council. As a graduate student, I received a National Science
Foundation Fellowship. I hold three U.S. patents, and I had nine articles
published in scientific journals. Some of the most exciting things I did were
participating in a number of sounding rocket shots at White Sands Missile Range
in New Mexico. I’m a rocket scientist. I really am.
Retiring a few years
ago, most of my career was with the Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis,
Minnesota and Albuquerque, New Mexico. I received the H.W. Sweatt
Award from Honeywell for outstanding technical accomplishment a few years after
I joined the company. Later in my career, I had the pleasure of overseeing the Sweatt Award program.