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   From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 21/02/2026 9:19 pm, J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > Bill Sloman  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 20/02/2026 5:25 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>> On 02/19/2026 10:19 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>> On 20/02/2026 3:08 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>> On 02/19/2026 02:06 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 19/02/2026 7:57 am, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 02/18/2026 12:54 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> On 02/18/2026 12:49 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>> On 02/18/2026 12:43 PM, Python wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>>> Le 18/02/2026 à 20:13, Ross Finlayson a écrit :   
   >>   
   >>    
   >>   
   >>> About as useless as "t'Hooft's Ladder".   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft   
   >>   
   >> He's a rat-bag. He won a Dutch Spinoza prize in 1995, as my wife did in   
   >> 1999, so she got to meet him from time to time at the prize-winner's   
   >> get-togethers. He wasn't an attractive character.   
   >   
   > In that case she may also have met him occasionally   
   > at meetings of the KNAW, [1]   
   >   
   > [1] Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen.   
   > As of 2017 the 'science' and 'humanities' parts of it have been joined.   
      
   We left the Netherlands in 2011. We came back pretty much every year   
   until 2020 when Covid-19 put a stop to international travel, but she   
   didn't spend her time in the Netherlands going to KNAW meetings.   
      
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   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
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