20th ANNUAL BILL FAIRBANK MEMORIAL RUN, WALK, BIKE,
…
March 7, 2009. Run, walk: 4.2 miles; bike: 11.5 miles.
Many thanks go to Rosenna Yau for providing food, drink, and timing,
Mrs. Frankie Beauley for timing, Maria Frank for helpith the flyer
design, and Elizabeth Noronha for support in ordering the T-shirts.
Many thanks also to Bill and Mary Fairbank for leading the design of
the T-shirt. Its explanation, provided by Francis Everitt, can be found
below these results.
|
Participant
|
|
Predicted
(min:sec)
|
Actual
|
Difference
(percent)
|
| 1 |
Todd Smith |
walk |
61:00 |
61:04 |
+0.11 |
| 2 |
Lucy Zhou |
bike |
43:50 |
43:38 |
-0.46 |
| 3 |
Brian Heffner |
same bike |
43:50 |
43:38 |
-0.46 |
| 4 |
Sandy Smith |
walk |
61:30 |
61:05 |
-0.68 |
| 5 |
Ashley Webb |
run |
35:48 |
35:31 |
-0.79 |
| 6 |
Beth Nowadnick |
run |
33:00 |
32:41 |
-0.96 |
| 7 |
Pat Burchat |
run |
38:45 |
38:22 |
-0.99 |
| 8 |
Bob Wagoner |
bike |
54:44 |
54:11 |
-1.01 |
| 9 |
Roger W. Romani |
bike |
20:00 |
20:31 |
+2.58 |
| 10 |
Bart Horn |
run |
29:58 |
29:10 |
-2.67 |
| 11 |
Li Zhang |
run |
39:48 |
40:52 |
+2.68 |
| 12 |
Ray Madarang |
run |
38:00 |
36:44 |
-3.33 |
| 13 |
Zach Scheiner |
run |
35:55 |
37:09 |
+3.43 |
| 14 |
Keith Bechtol |
run |
38:00 |
36:28 |
-4.04 |
| 15 |
David Beauley |
run |
25:30 |
24:26 |
-4.18 |
| 16 |
Terry Martin |
run |
48:00 |
50:06 |
+4.38 |
| 17 |
Janet Tang |
run |
45:00 |
42:49 |
-4.85 |
| 18 |
Roger Blandford |
run |
33:00 |
31:23 |
-4.90 |
| 19 |
Jim Lockhart |
run |
47:00 |
49:51 |
+6.06 |
| 20 |
Laurel Scotland-Stewart |
bike |
60:00 |
56:19 |
-6.14 |
| 21 |
Victoria Rafalski |
run |
39:45 |
37:09 |
-6.54 |
| 22 |
Barry Muhlfelder |
run |
40:00 |
36:41 |
-8.29 |
| 23 |
T.J. Bay |
bike |
62:00 |
56:21 |
-9.11 |
| 24 |
Manny Fassihi |
run |
29:00 |
26:00 |
-10.34 |
| 25 |
Mark Rubin |
run |
43:08 |
38:26 |
-10.90 |
| 26 |
Jodi Cooley |
bike |
65:00 |
57:01 |
-12.28 |
| 27 |
Vanessa Mitchell |
run |
40:00 |
35:04 |
-12.33 |
| 28 |
Steve Sekula |
bike |
65:00 |
56:46 |
-12.67 |
| 29 |
Wells Wulsin |
run |
26:30 |
22:49 |
-13.90 |
| 30 |
Bill Fairbank, Jr. |
walk |
66:32 |
76:41 |
+15.26 |
| 31 |
Samantha |
run |
63:00 |
72:46 |
+15.50 |
| 32 |
Leo Gomez |
run |
35:00 |
40:35 |
+15.95 |
| 33 |
Mark Gondek |
run |
46:00 |
38:12 |
-16.96 |
| 34 |
Patriun Nguyen |
run |
45:00 |
36:50 |
-18.15 |
| 35 |
Yorgos Sofianatos |
bike |
64:00 |
51:27 |
-19.61 |
| 36 |
Heidi Wu |
walk |
80:00 |
60:19 |
-24.60 |
| 37 |
Mary Fairbank |
run |
53:00 |
66:06 |
+24.72 |
| 38 |
Xi Wang |
run |
40:00 |
29:44 |
-25.67 |
| 39 |
Vahe, Lucas, Sky
|
bike |
29:30 |
37:18 |
+26.44 |
| 40 |
Jen Dolson |
run |
45:00 |
58:13 |
+29.37 |
| 41 |
Ginny Sung |
walk |
90:00 |
60:19 |
-32.98 |
| 42 |
Ellen Childress |
run |
43:15 |
58:12 |
+34.57 |
| 43 |
Francis Everitt |
run,walk |
52:00 |
72:46 |
+39.94 |
| 44 |
Brandon Beauley |
run |
36:30 |
63:40 |
+74.43 |
| 45 |
MaryLou Holding |
|
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Results certified by R.V. Wagoner Enterprises, Ltd.

The
image on the back of the 20th Annual William Martin Fairbank
Memorial Run/Walk/Bike T-Shirt is a 10 times full-scale reproduction of
the Fairbank Tie Tack fabricated in 1968. It combines four images
representing four different areas of physics to which Bill Fairbank
made critical contributions:
1) Top left: The London moment in a spinning superconducting sphere. A
spinning superconductor develops a magnetic moment aligned with its
instantaneous spin axis. This effect, first half-predicted by R.
Becker, F. Zauter and G. Heller in 1933, was investigated theoretically
by Fritz London in 1948, and then simultaneously discovered in 1964 by
three groups, M. Bol and Fairbank at Stanford, A. F. Hildebrandt at
Texas A&M, and J. B. Hendricks, A. King, and H. E. Rorschach at
Rice University. Bol and Fairbank's work led directly to the use of the
London moment to read out the direction of spin of the Gravity Probe B
gyroscopes.
2) Center horizontal: The three equal length bars represent three
sections of the Superconducting Accelerator (SCA) built in HEPL in the
1960s. The idea of the SCA grew out of Bill's 1948 Yale University
Ph.D. research on properties of high-Q superconducting cavities. The
first 180 ft long room temperature electron linear accelerator was
built in HEPL in 1947. It led to a decade of very productive research,
including Hofstadter's crucial measurements of nuclear form factors. It
led in turn to the building of SLAC. Because of heating in the copper
resonant cavities, room temperature accelerators can only operate with
a 0.1% duty cycle. Bill recognized that high-Q superconducting cavities
could allow continuous operation. A 120 ft long accelerator was built
in HEPL under Alan Schwettman's leadership with John Turneaure being
responsible for development of cavities with Q's as high as 10^11. The
Stanford SCA was finally transposed into a Free Electron Laser with the
help of Todd Smith. Applications of similar principles to nuclear
physics have been developed elsewhere at DESY in Germany, and the
Jefferson Laboratory in Virginia.
3) Peaked curve extending upwards in upper right quadrant: This
illustrates the Lambda point transition in specific heat from normal to
superfluid helium. Prior to 1956, it had been measured with an accuracy
of 10^-3K. Within that accuracy, it was known to obey a logarithmic
discontinuity above and below the lambda point. In 1955, there was a
famous dispute between Blatt, Butler, and Schafroth who argued that the
curve would be rounded closer in than 10^-3K, and Feynman who bet that
there will be no rounding within 10^-5K. One of Bill's most famous
experiments followed, co-performed with M. J. Buckingham and C. F.
Kellers in 1957. They demonstrated that the logarithmic discontinuity
held to within 10^-6K. Their work was further brilliantly extended by
John Lipa in a 1992 Shuttle-based space experiment achieving
nano-Kelvin accuracy.
4) Expression hc/2e: This represents the discovery in 1961, separately
by R. Doll and M. Nabauer in Germany and Bascom Deaver and Bill at
Stanford, of quantized magnetic flux in superconductors. Fritz London
had tentatively predicted flux quantization in 1948 with a suggested
value of hc/e. Prior to the experiment, Lars Onsager, in conversations
with Bill, had conjectured that the true result might be hc/2e, and
that was the result which Bascom and Bill, unlike Doll and Nabauer,
actually found. Thereafter, it was interesting to see how many
theorists claimed to have known it all along, though it is not always
easy to find their published statements prior to the experiment.
Quantized magnetic flux, in combination with Brian Josephson's
brilliant prediction of quantum mechanical tunneling (the Josephson
effect) led in turn to the SQUID magnetometers vitally important in
many experiments including the GP-B gyroscope readout.