Bibliographic record
Abstract
Boris Stoicheff was a pioneer in the use of high-resolution Raman spectroscopy at the National Research Council of Canada to elucidate the structural properties of molecules. He was also one of the first scientists to apply lasers to spectroscopy, investigating spontaneous and stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering in liquids and solids at the University of Toronto. He later extended the range of tunable coherent sources into the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and extreme ultraviolet (XUV) regions down to 80 nm, allowing investigations of electronic states and their lifetimes for rare gas dimers. He authored 190 research and review articles as well as a biography of his postdoctoral mentor and later his senior colleague, Gerhard Herzberg. He used his keen insight, warm personality and strong personal skills to serve the scientific community in numerous administrative roles, including terms as president of the Canadian Association of Physicists and the Optical Society of America. His 24 PhD graduates and more than 20 postdoctoral fellows and visitors, all of whom benefitted from his strong mentoring skills and high standards, have gone on to prominent positions in academia, government and industry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".