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**Gaëtan Landry**
	Gaëtan Landry
	; The Head Bomb; Atom
Born	September 4, 1984; Grande-Anse (NB), Canada
Residence	Moncton (NB), Canada
Citizenship	Canadian
Ethnicity	Acadian
Fields	Physics: Experimental physics, General Physics, Optics, Organic Semiconductors, Photovoltaics, Signal analysis, Solid state physics, Particle physics
Institutions	Université de Moncton;
Alma mater	Université de Moncton
Known for	The Head Bomb; WikiProject Physics coordinator; Article alerts; Physics Labs T.A. (2003–Present); Treasurer, AÉFSUM (2007–2008); Avid Dr Pepper drinker
Influences	Richard Feynman, Friedrich Nietzche, Karl Popper, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris
Religious stance	Atheist
	Notes; B.Sc. Physics (Honours) (U de M) (2006); M.Sc. Physics (U de M) (Ongoing); Interests: Astrophysics, atheism, creationism, evolution, intelligent design, philosophy, philosophy of science, physics, science, religion, theology, ...

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Welcome

Welcome on my user page! I hope you like it. If you have any questions about me or my work on Wikipedia, leave me a message on my talk page and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Quotes

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfold fear.
– Thomas Jefferson –

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
– Ayn Rand –

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
– William G. McAdoo –

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Rants

Typesetting

Unbeknownst to most people, the default settings of their web browsers displays pages using extremely crappy typesettings. For example, the default font in Internet Explorer and Firefox for 99% of the text found in Wikipedia is Arial. Arial is a sans serif font, which is fine for everyday life, however, in technical articles, some symbols can be confused. Are you a victim of bad typesetting? Well here's how you can tell.

Do some or all of these look alike or of unequal height?

As on Wikipedia:	iι ; eéèêë ; EÉÈÊË ; Il1 ; vν ; uυ οoOΟ0 *
Zoomed in:	iι ; eéèêë ; EÉÈÊË ; Il1 ; vν ; uυ οoOΟ0
* This is a test for mostly technical readers who are likely to encounter the omicron greek letter, whose use is extremely rare because it just looks to damn much like an o (letter). You should at least be able to tell the difference between oO0 (lowercase o, capital O, and zero [0]).

Yes: You have a bad sans serif type of font.
No: Congratulations, you have a well-designed typeface!

Is this hard to read (looks all bunched up)?

As on Wikipedia:	WifiWifivviiivvifiWifiW
Zoomed in:	WifiWifivviiivvifiWifiW

Yes: You have a sans serif font (or browser) with bad kerning.
No: Congratulations, you have a well-designed typeface / browser!

Solution: Go in your browser, check for fonts (in Firefox this is located in Tools > Options > Content > Advanced > Sans serif). And it's trial and error from there. I personally use DejaVu Sans, which I find rather nice. However, it causes some problems with tables (some dividing lines might not show up).

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Languages

Wikipedia:Babel

fr	Cet utilisateur a pour langue maternelle le français.

en-5	This user is able to contribute with a professional level of English.

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by	The passive voice may be used by this user.

~~mankind~~	This user supports the use of gender-neutral language.

A, B, and C	This user prefers the serial comma.

{{t\|4}}	This user creates and edits templates, with flawless proficiency, and is considered a guru on the subject.

"…"! ~~US vs. UK~~	This user uses "logical quotation marks". Internal punctuation leads to factual errors. It's not a style issue!

~~YOU~~	This user dies a little inside whenever s/he sees the word "you" in an article.

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Barnstars

If you want to award me a barnstar, please do so on on my talk page

Barnstar	Image	Reason	From user	Date
WikiProject Barnstar		This barnstar is in recognition of your good work at the physics wikiproject. Please keep up your good work :-).	SJP talk·contribs	2008-06-22
Editor's Barnstar		In recognition of your intelligent and spirited work in expanding the depth and scope of Wikipedia.	Ecoleetage talk·contribs	2008-06-23
Kilobyte Barnstar		For your efforts in restoring the industry standard terms for memory size to the Manual of Style (dates and numbers). The IC is an Intel 2708, a 1 kilobyte EPROM made in 1976.	SWTPC6800 talk·contribs	2008-10-21
Billy Idol / Noice Day to Start Again award	It's the knoife wot dun it!	For your contributions on Magnetospheric eternally collapsing object [1], I award you the Billy Idol / Noice Day to Start Again award. Cheers!	Goodmorningworld talk·contribs	2008-11-14
The Excellent Userpage Award		Your page is amazing! I certainly envy it.	Goosemanrocks talk·contribs	2009-01-13
The Guidance Barnstar		Thank you for setting up the glass taskforce and all the guidance and information related to it. I learned a lot.	Afluegel talk·contribs	2009-03-30
The Original Barnstar		For creating the Fluid Dynamics Taskforce, and your explosive action backstage to get and keep the task force running.	Crowsnest talk·contribs	2009-04-23
The E = mc² Barnstar		For your efforts in bringing quark to FA-level, as well as putting up with my somewhat limited and amateur knowledge of the topic these past months.	Anonymous Dissident talk·contribs A. di M. talk·contribs	2009-07-31

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WikiProjects

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	This user is a participant of WikiProject Physics.

Wikipedia

	This user is a member of the Association of Structurist Wikipedians.

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This user is a WikiFaerie.

	This user votes Delete regularly for the Article Deletion Squadron.

	This user has rollback rights on the English Wikipedia. (verify)

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Interests

This user has a keen interest in physics.

This user is interested in religion as an anthropological and historical phenomenon.

Views

	This user is a skeptic.

This user is an atheist.

lib

This user is a liberal.

Majority ≠ right

This user recognizes that even if 300,000,000 people make the same mistake, it's still a mistake.

This user understands biological evolution.

Experience

	This user is a graduate student in Physics.

BS	This user has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.

Other

C&H

This user reads Calvin and Hobbes.

xkcd	This user is a reader of the xkcd webcomic.

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Featured Work

	This user helped promote List of baryons to featured list status.

	This user helped promote Quark to featured article status.

DYK

	A fact from the article Kazuhiko Nishijima, which this user created or significantly contributed to, has been featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page.

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Publications

Landry, G. (2009). "A proposal for a new hadron nomenclature". Physics in Canada (2009 CAP Congress) 69 (2, suppl.): 96. http://www.cap.ca/congress/2009/program/abstracts.TU-P2_P3.pdf. (conference PDF)
Landry, G. (2006). "Optical properties of the TPD/Alq₃ interface in TPD/Alq₃ junctions". APICS Undergrad Physics and Astronomy Conference.
Landry, G. (2005). "Preliminary Research of Photovoltaic Phenomena in TPD/AlQ₃ Films". APICS Undergrad Physics and Astronomy Conference. p. 16. http://www.ap.smu.ca/~smuaps/images/AUPAC2005_mod.pdf.