Rolf Sinclair

Founder member and former Chairman of INSAP

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Biography

(U.S.) has two Physics BSc degrees: from the California Institute of Technology and The Rice University, where he started to focus on theoretical physics and then experimental nuclear physics. He continued with his nuclear research in Westinghouse Laboratories (U.S.), at the University of Hamburg (Germany), and then at the University of Paris (France). Between 1959 and 1969 he was in the University of Princeton, at the Plasma Physics Laboratory from the U.S. Controlled Thermonuclear Program, working on concepts of fusion reactors. From 1969 until his retirement in 1998, he was Program Officer at the Physics Division of the US National Science Foundation (NSF). During this period, he was the NSF Representative for the United Eclipse Expeditions to Canada (1979) and India (1980), and NSF Representative at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1995 and 1996. During a sabbatical at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1988-89), he worked with the LANL "Bright Source" laser facility, and as a Professor at the New Mexico State University (1985) and Northern Arizona University (1986). Since 1978 he has been active in studies in archaeoastronomy in Pre-Columbian cultures of the southwest of US, and more recently, in the cultural effects of astronomical phenomena visible to the naked eye. In 1999, he joined CECs, where he is appointed at the Senior Scientific Laboratory of Glaciology and Climate Change.