Talk:Charles F. Goodeve

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Added that he received the D.Sc. (as Wwoods observed elsewhere that info on this was missing from the bio.) I have no info on exact date yet. I'm looking into it. Pete G. 22:49, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Hah, sucked in. While things that go 'BOOM' are inherently interesting, and comparatively easy to describe, there are other things to talk about:

1. His '30s chemistry work needs expansion; at least I'm under the impression that membership in the Royal Society isn't handed out simply for being a nice fellow, especially if he's a yokel from the provinces, not an Oxbridgean.
2. Family life? His wife had a Ph.D. in an era when very few women had a bachelor's degree. Probably there's not enough for an article on Janet Wallace or Janet Goodeve, but worth mentioning somehow.
3. Did he become a UKan, or remain a Canadian?
4. His post-war work in the steel industry, and in operational research need explication. "Lord Blackett is rightly claimed as the wartime father of O. R., but the foster parents of this baby, which was more or less left on the doorstep in 1946, were largely Goodeve and Hicks."

—wwoods 09:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeh... When I get some time to think about it... Meanwhile maybe you know how to fix a fix of mine. I wanted to link the "D.Sc" to the Wikipedia section in "Doctorate" on higher UK degrees, but I couldn't find any way to do it with the double-bracket convention. I had to use the full http... alternative, which means it gets the external-link flag. Any way to fix this? Pete G. 23:09, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Fixed. It's easy: just add the section title after the article title, separated by a #. —wwoods 01:03, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks -- thought I'd tried that, but I probably used the actual anchor or something. Pete G. 20:43, 12 May 2006 (UTC)