Saturday, June 9, 2007

Guillermo Gonzalez: More Impressive Than He Appears?

I mentioned recently Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomy professor who was recently denied tenure in spite of a pretty impressive publication history--and who might have been denied tenure at least partly because of his involvement (off campus) with Intelligent Design. I also mentioned that when I searched for papers by this guy, that there seemed to be two astronomers named Guillermo Gonzalez, one at Iowa State and the other at University of Washington.

A reader with a brother who is a professional astronomer tells me that they are the same guy:
It's the same guy. Before Gonzalez came to Iowa, he was at Washington.

To have authored 68 peer-reviewed papers before tenure is stunning.
Gonzalez leads his department in citation analyses, even though
his more senior colleagues have been working for decades longer.

...

Gonzalez is a rising academic superstar, and what happened
to him is such a travesty that I can't even find words to express
my anger.
If this is correct (and it could be that University of Washington just hasn't taken down Gonzalez's old web page), the Gonzalez has an astonishing publication history. It makes it seem all the more likely that what we are seeing is what the Weekly Standard article claims: discrimination because Gonzalez doesn't toe the party line.

UPDATE: I just searched the University of Washington's faculty directory; Gonzalez isn't listed there anymore, so that webpage must be old.

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