RetFizz

About me

Gender Male
Industry Science
Occupation Retired Physicist
Location Woodland Hills, Southern California, United States
Introduction Born, raised, and educated entirely in Southern California. First I was a nuclear physicist, then I was a rocket scientist ;-).
Interests Watching Dodgers, UCLA sports, British TV; piano, duplicate bridge, tennis & skiing (long ago), crosswords, "hard" science fiction, current events, classical concerts and opera, trying to follow current physics and astronomy.
Favorite Movies Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Lost Horizon, The Red Shoes, The Third Man, Lawrence of Arabia, The Jackal, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Animal House, The Martian, Interstellar, Arrival, and many more that I can't think of at the moment
Favorite Music Classical ca.1850–present to listen; Debussy, Brahms, Rachmaninov to play. (Don't practice enough.)
Favorite Books Dune, The Forever War, Camouflage, A Terrible Splendor, Persuasion, Asimov's robot novels