User:Denis.g.rancourt

I was a tenured Full Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, until 2009.

My research areas have included: condensed matter physics, statistical physics, environmental science, materials science, magnetism, Invar physics, meteorites, instrumental measurement methods, diffraction, spectroscopy, sediment diagenesis, climate change, and the interactions between science and society.

My main research areas since 2009 have included: environmental science, radiation balance physics for Earth, health and medicine, social theory, and domestic and international law of freedom of expression.

Disclosure of potential conflicts

• The Ontario Civil Liberties Association (OCLA) has provided support to me in a freedom of expression litigation. I now do itemized volunteer work for OCLA.
• I am the author of the book Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism.
• There is a WP article about me: Denis Rancourt.
• I have had support in public matters from Jeff Schmidt (writer).
• James Maurice Daniels was my PhD supervisor, until 1984 when I graduated and left the city of Toronto.

English Wikipedia articles that I have created (initiated) include:

Science

• antitaenite
• Ferrihydrite
• superferromagnetism

Persons

• Connie Fournier
• James Maurice Daniels
• Jeff Schmidt (writer)
• Michele Brill-Edwards
• Truman J. Nelson
• Virgil Grandfield

Books

• Beyond the Promised Land: The Movement and the Myth
• Disciplined Minds
• Hierarchy and Free Expression in the Fight Against Racism
• Negroes with Guns

Films

• Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (film)

Other

• Ontario Civil Liberties Association
• Gold effect