Carl's Brief Autobiography

I went on to major in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Not satisfied with a bachelor's degree, I went on to graduate school at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Here I got my PhD in nuclear physics, studying reactions which are thought to take place in the Big Bang.

On July 11, 1993 I married Roxanne. In 1994 we moved to Hillsborough, North Carolina. I was a postdoc and then research faculty at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, while Roxanne (who also got her PhD from Caltech) worked in the pharmaceutical industry. I also had an office at Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab, which is located at Duke University.

On October 31, 1996, we had our son Ryan Tanner (see below).

In 2001 we took a big step and moved to Athens, Ohio. I'm presently a Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Ohio University, and Roxanne is working in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. You can check out my professional webpage here.

Along the way, I've picked up several hobbies including some sports (basketball, volleyball, softball), herpetology, flyfishing, hiking, camping, and fiddling with my 65 Chevelle. At the moment (2011), some of these (volleyball, softball, and flyfishing) are in the midst of a long hiatus...

Note: I originally wrote this in 1996, when the World Wide Web was a pretty new thing. For old times sake, I've left the text and style alone, only updating some essential factual bits.