DAN PURRINGTON'S HOME PAGE

Robert D. Purrington
Professor of Physics
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
(504) 862-3177
[Physics Department: 865-5520]
e-mail: danny@tulane.edu

TULANE PHYSICS DEPARTMENT website

Personal photographs...of interest only to family and friends: grandchildren, Colorado property, etc.

Personal Research Interests:
Quantum Theory of Scattering, Classical Scattering (underwater acoustics), History of Physics, Archaeoastronomy.

Research and Teaching Interests plus other professional information

"Even in New Orleans, where there is magic in many things and weirdness in most, this does not happen every day."
The New York Times (8/18/95) on fighting drugs in New Orleans with Voodoo.

• Not so "Hot off the press" anymore, but: R.D. Purrington, Physics in the Nineteenth Century, Rutgers University Press, 1997.
  

  Personal miscellany (friends, ski bums, etc)

  For the correct time:
  U.S. Naval Observatory time from the Master Clock

  Link to Real time USNO Master clock, including audio

  

  Continuously updated clock (PDT: add 2 hrs for CDT; add 7 for GMT)

  Some photos of the demolition of Cunningham Observatory, 3/16/01

  New Tulane Observatory, housing Meade 16-inch SCT, now in operation.

  

  Celebrating on the summit of Kilimanjaro (Uhuru Pt., 5895 m), Feb. 26, 1999

  Tulane Home Page

  Tulane Phone Book

  Howard Tilton Library

  Interlibrary Loan

  Quotes, Views, and Opinions.....

  Table of Contents

  

  White-breasted Nuthatch and Albatross images borrowed from AVES site

  • Information about Birds

  • Louisiana Bird Resources

  • Pelagic Birding Page (Louisiana and elsewhere)

    

  • Weather Information, including marine and tropical weather, wave heights, and ocean water temperatures

  • Clear Sky Clock for seeing and transparency predictions

  • Tide Prediction Sites

    

    Aerial View of southern Greenland, 1997. Photo RDP

  • New Orleans Restaurants>

  • Internet Wine Resources

  • CAMRA, Campaign for Real Ale (UK) site

  • Amateur Radio Astronomy Links
  • Archaeoastronomy

  • Students Only

    Archaeoastronomy home page accessible only through Blackboard

  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics Class Page
  • Astronomy 100 Class Home Page
  • Astronomy 102 Summer 2007 Home Page
  • Physics 132-04 Home Page
  • Physics 374; Classical Dynamics
  • Physics 710, Statistical Mechanics
  • Old Ast 110, Observational Astronomy, Homepage
  • Astronomy 110 homepage, with links to images
  • Links to astrophotography sites, especially CCD
  • Climbing, Hiking, Backpacking, Wilderness information (skiing, even!)
  • Direct Link to my High Mountain Page
  • Beer
  • Fossils and Fossil Collecting
  • History of Astronomy
  • History (and Philosophy) of Science
  • Libraries
  • Maps, Remote Sensing
  • Stock Market Quotes, etc.
  • History of 19th Century Physics (under construction
  • New Orleans, especially Dining
  • Physics
  • Physics 131 Spring 2000 Home Page
  • Physics 447 Home Page
  • Physics 723 Home Page
  • Physics 724 Home Page
  • Running
  • Environmental Hall of Shame
  • Warbirds (and other interesting aircraft)

  
  

  

  Miscellaneous Home Pages and Resources

  • Physics e-print Archive

  • Eye on Durango

  • AMAZON.COM BOOKS

  • Barnes and Noble

  • ABE Books

  • Powell's Books

  • AAAS Home Page

  • The Times of London

  • BBC Radio 3

  • WQXR Radio, NYC

  • YAHOO

  • Energy Data from DOE

  • Sierra Club Home Page

  • National Audubon Society Home Page

  • J.S. Bach Home Page

  • Edumnds Auto Information

  • Auto Purchase/Lease Online

  • NEW YORK TIMES ONLINE

  • Kelley Blue Book car prices

  • Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research

  • Nichael Cramer's Book home page

  • ABE used book exchange