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L y n d s a y F l e t c h e r Solar Physicist Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Palo Alto, California
The Sun is a beautiful, intricate, complicated, mysterious thing; but in this job it
is easy to intellectualize it too much. It is easy to forget that this thing we look at
on our computer screens every day, and argue about, and describe with equations, is a
STAR and it is HUGE and unimaginably powerful and RIGHT UP THERE! I hope I'll always be
amazed by the Sun. When I stop saying "Wow!" I'll stop doing solar physics.
Some Personal Info
My two favorite hobbies are going hill walking in Scotland (which is not so easy to
do, being here in California) and singing, which I do with a local choir, who give
regular performances. I appreciate the huge variety of pastimes and the weather that the
Bay Area provides, but I miss Europe’s beautiful old cities (where the car doesn’t quite
rule, yet), museums, and cafe society! I get back there whenever I can, and also to
Scotland (nowhere is more beautiful on a sunny day) to see my parents and my sister and
brother who all still live in Glasgow.
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