Athena getting ready to write (amphora from Nola).

ATHENA Acknowledgements

LITERATURE

Several CONTRIBUTORS sent many texts; they strongly help ATHENA's Project.

Many people typed, revised or corrected parts of ATHENA's e-texts; their names are written at the top or at the bottom of the texts in which they were involved.





CORRECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

The following people sent helpful suggestions or corrections for ATHENA's e-texts; many thanks!

- Arnaud ARCHIMBAUB, Canada.
- Shadi BARTSCH, University of Chicago.
- Jean BETREMA, Université de Bordeaux, France.
- David BOUTIN, Canada.
- Maurice COURTOIS, France.
- Eric MERGUIN, Collège Voltaire, Genève.
- Silvio CEVOLANI, Bologna, Italy.
- Jacqueline COGNE, Genève.
- Denis CONSTALES, from Gent, sent very perspicacious corrections and comments on e-texts.
- Jean-Marie FARDEAU, Belgique.
- GONOU, Seoul National University, Korea.
- David HILDNER, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Jon HOLM, Klassisk og Romansk Institutt, Oslo.
- Ian JOHNSTON, Uni. Malaspina, Canada.
- Orsolya LÖKKÖS-TOTH, Collège Voltaire, Genève.
- Frederik MIKUSEK, Université de Nancy, F.
- Benjamin PARADIS, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada.
- Ola TERESHKO, Pittsburgh University.
- Charles-Ferdinand WIRZ, curator of Institut et Musée Voltaire, Genève, and secretary of Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau helped us to find XVIII th century documents and pictures. It seems he knows all what is possible to know about Voltaire!
- Reto ZIMMERMANN, Collège Voltaire, Genève.





TRANSLATIONS

- Anna CHKOLENOK helped me with Russian texts. I hope her ancestor's works (M. V. Lomonosov) will soon be on line!
- Louis DUVILLARD, helped me with Latin and Greek translations. How do you say to Parmenides or Sallustius: "click on the mouse"?
- Lilliam HURST corrected mistranslations in my English texts. I like her sound suggestions and drily worded comments.
- Paul KUNZ, corrected some of my English texts. He could not translate the famous French word 'bof!' and told me that if he said 'bof!' and shrugged his shoulders at home then his distinguished wife would ask for a divorce. He writes poems.
Paul's Internet Limerick
There was a bright man called Perroud
a computer buff through and through.
He worked all night
to get his programme right -
a world-wide "How do you do".
- Christer LJUSLIN, helps me understanding Swedish titles, when we meet at the CERN microcomputer Club.
- Margaret NEWTON, corrected some of my English texts. She could not translate "bof!" and remained petrified at the thought of such an indecorous word being used.
- Orsolya LÖKKÖS-TOTH, translated interesting, and funny, Hungarian data.
- Sonja SCHROEDER helped me understanding what they write about ATHENA on Japanese servers!





COMPUTING

- Jean-Pierre FOURNIER develops and maintains the www server in good running order, at hypo.ge-dip.etat-ge.ch. He arranged search program for Athena's texts.
- Gérald & Caroline POGET, 'SYNOPTIC PC', did not only sell me hardware and software but are maintaining it in good working order, even when other people sleep or pick mushrooms.
- Cédric RATHGEB came at the right moment when I had queer computing problems.
- Jean-François ROSSIGNOL maintains the www server at un2sg4.unige.ch. He has a magic wand and solves computer problems at a breathtaking speed. He built the search programs for the mineral database and the books database. He also installed the Earth viewer.
- Jean Bernard ROUX, former director of 'Service informatique du post obligatoire' (SIPO), accepted and encouraged the ATHENA's project.
- Francois SAVARY provided me with precious on-line help when I was installing my first Mosaic browser.
- John WAKKER is the creator of the Earth viewer shareware.





MINERALOGY

- Ted HADLEY, Bay Area Mineralogists, California.
- Jacques JEDWAB, ULB, Bruxelles, Belgium.
- Susan KULL (New Jersey) and Kjell MYRE (Norway) reported a peculiar problem generated by a disobedient ascii character in the databases.
- Johan MAERTENS, Belgium, sent datas on carbonates.
- Florencia MARQUEZ ZAVALIA, University of Manitoba, CDN.
- Arlette MATHIEU, Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, typed an important part of the mineral database in 1986 - 1987 (nearly 2000 formulas without error!).
- Ignasi QUERALT, Institut de Ciènces de la Terra, Barcelona.
- Mathias REBIEN, Hahn-Meitner Institut.
- Jan SANZ-GYSLER, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève, suggested very useful improvements.
- Halil SARP, Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève, provided data and pictures on recent minerals.
- David VEBLEN, Johns Hopkins University, suggested corrections for chain silicates.





MINERAL PICTURES

Several people authorised the use of their mineral pictures:

- Guy BERSET, Genève, Switzerland.
- Andrea DALIA, Nice, France.
- Richard C. ERD, Palo Alto, California.
- Paul HOTTINGER, for the 'Schweizer Strahler' pictures: see details in the mineral pictures pages.
- Roger MARTIN, Nyon, Switzerland.
- Alice & Eugen RONDORF, Eifel minerals.
- H. SARP, SEM pictures from Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève. - Walter TRATTNER, from Austria.
- Robert VERNET and his 10000 famous pictures.
- Eric WENGER, from Australia.





MAILS

Many thanks to the hundreds of people who send information on interesting sites, new links, dead links (or arisen from the dead) or such friendly and encouraging messages. But don't ask me to search for what you could find yourself on the web, in libraries, in encyclopedias, etc.: please use your brain!




See also an article by Pierre-Louis CHANTRE, published in L'HEBDO Nr 7, 1997.

Pierre Perroud        

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