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"Keith Alexander Nugent (born 28 June 1959) is an Australian physicist. He is Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at La Trobe University and a Professor of Physics at the University of Melbourne, Australia specialising in X-ray optics and near-field optics. He was born in Bath, England. He received a first class honours degree from the University of Adelaide and his postgraduate degree from the Australian National University in Canberra. In 1989 Professor Nugent in collaboration with Dr. Stephen Wilkins pioneered a form of X-ray optics known as lobster-eye optics. Using the capillary structure found in lobster eyes, Nugent and Wilkins were able to design telescopes with a 360 degree view of the sky. This was initially planned to be used in a LOBSTER satellite which would, indeed, conduct 360 degree surveys of the sky, though never came to fruition. NASA currently have plans to use the technology to view space objects and phenomena from the International Space Station. In 2001 Nugent was made a Federation Fellow by the Australian Government. This position was renewed in 2006. He also chairs the Sciences Advisory Board of IATIA, a company designed to commercialise some of his inventions. Nugent is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA). He sits on the Advisory Board of the Australian Synchrotron. Since 2005 Nugent has been director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, based at the University of Melbourne, where he has driven the development of coherent X-ray diffraction methods for imaging biological structures. His other research focusses on the complete recovery of phase from intensity and the applications of this to imaging. This work is currently being used to monitor wear in car engines and has potential for research into the treatment of cancer. In 2011 Nugent was appointed part-time Director of the Australian Synchrotron. He was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Research) at La Trobe University in January 2013. Academic achievements, awards and honors *Two R&D; 100 Awards (1988 and 2002). *The Walter Boas Medal (1997) of the Australian Institute of Physics *The Edgeworth David Medal (1993) of the Royal Society of New South Wales *The Pawsey Medal of the Australian Academy of Science, of which he was elected a Fellow in 2000 *A 2003 Centenary Medal by the Federal Government for outstanding contributions to science *2004 Victoria Prize for pioneering work with quantitative phase imaging. *Member of the National Science Advisory Committee of the Australian Synchrotron *Member of the Expert Advisory Committee for Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences. References External links *University of Melbourne page on Prof. Keith A Nugent *2004 Victoria Prize *2004 Victoria Prize media release Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Australian physicists Category:Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science Category:University of Adelaide alumni Category:Australian National University alumni Category:University of Melbourne faculty "
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"Arnljot is an opera by the Swedish composer Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. Written in 1906, it premiered April 13, 1910 and was revised in 1956. The origin to Arnljot is a melody that Wilhelm Peterson-Berger created when he first visited Jämtland in 1898. When he journeyed over Storsjön he was inspired by the nearby mountains, Oviksfjällen. The opera consists of three parts and the historical foundation of the opera is the character Arnljot Gelline that is mentioned in Snorri Sturluson saga about Olav Haraldsson (den Helige, Rex perpetuus Norvegiae) and the writings on Frösöstenen, the rune stone that is placed on Frösön. Out of these components, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger wrote his drama. Performance history The original performance of Arnljot as an opera was put on on April 13, 1910 at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.History of the Royal Swedish Opera (retrieved Sep 11, 2007) However, Wilhelm Peterson-Berger had already two years earlier allowed amateurs to perform parts of the texts and music on Frösön on a midsummer night eve. Nearly 3.000 persons witnessed this amateur performance of the Arnljot play. Today, each summer the Arnljot play (the opera is performed as a play, but the texts and music remains the same) staged in an outdoor environment on the island of Frösön, close to where the actual premiere took place in 1908. The background of the stage is a panoramic view over Storsjön and Oviksfjällen; thus, when the audience hears the introduction tune of the opera, they see the same view as Wilhelm Peterson-Berger did when he created the opera. 2012 is the 73rd summer with Arnljot on Frösön since 1935. Famous passage from the drama The quote below serves as an inspiration for the present-day independence movement (an established cultural institution) that exists in the Swedish province of Jamtland. "Listen Jamtar ('Jämts') to what I have to say for a while. Not even eighty winters have passed since Jamtland was still free and in charge of its own business. Back then, no taxes was given away to foreign kings. Why we settled being enslaved, at first under Norway and then under Svitiod [a reference to Sweden], are something that I have never understood. This country, being protected by forests, bogs and mountains, is difficult to raid and easy to defend. There are plenty of fighting men among us and more such men can be brought here if paid by goods. Therefore, I now advise you - end this dispute of which kingdom we belong. Let us refuse all foreign attempts to make us a county, no matter who demands this from us. Let us again seize our former freedom and elect a chief for all of our country, a king who will lead our struggle if the struggle is needed to defend our homes and our land." / Sigurd in Slandrom, one of the chieftains in Jämtland supporting Arnljot as king, at the "thing" on Frösön, act I, June 1025. Recordings *Arnljot (excerpts) Erland Hagegard, Karin Langebo, Edith Thallaug, Bjorn Asker, Kage Jehrlander, Male Chorus from the Stockholm Philharmonic Choir, Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra conducted Okko Kamu. Sterling 1CD References Category:Operas Category:1908 operas Category:1910 operas Category:Swedish- language operas Category:Operas by Wilhelm Peterson-Berger "