David M. Scienceman is an Australian scientist; he changed his name from David Slade by deed poll in 1972. McGhee (1990) wrote that his change of name from Slade to Scienceman was an experiment to create a movement of scientifically aware politicians. In a world dominated by scientific achievements and problems, Slade believed that there should be a political party that represented the scientific point of view (Cadzow 1984). Scienceman has a mathematics and physics degree and a PhD in chemical engineering from Sydney University (Australia), on a scholarship from the

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(Cadzow 1984). At a meeting of the

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in 1976, a group of American feminists told him his new name was unbearably sexist. He saw their point and decided that a better title for members of the Scientific Party would be "Sciencemate" (Cadzow 1984). For Cadzow, Scienceman:

Author of emergy nomenclature

Scienceman claimed to be the author of the nomenclature of "

emergy Emergy is the amount of energy consumed in direct and indirect transformations to make a product or service. Emergy is a measure of quality differences between different forms of energy. Emergy is an expression of all the energy used in the work pr ...

". In a letter to the

Ecological Engineering Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both".W.J. Mitsch & S.E. Jorgensen (1989), "Introdu ...

journal (1997, p. 209) he wrote: H.T. Odum (1997, p. 215) wrote:

References

* J. Cadzow (1984) ''Dr Scienceman's brave new word'',

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, Newspaper Article, Tuesday, 15 May, p. 7. * H.T. Odum (1997) Letter to the Editor: Emergy terminology. Ecol. Engr. 9: 215–216. ISSN 0925-8574, . * J. McGhee (1990), ''Super Scienceman'', Extract from the Edinburgh EVENING NEWS, Scotland, 6 April, p. 1. * D.M. Scienceman (1987) Energy and Emergy. In G. Pillet and T. Murota (eds), ''Environmental Economics: The Analysis of a Major Interface''. Geneva: R. Leimgruber. pp. 257–276. (CFW-86-26) * D.M. Scienceman (1989)
The Emergence of Emonomics
'. In Proceedings of the International Society for General Systems Research Conference (2–7 July 1989), Edinburgh, Scotland, 7 pp. (CFW-89-02). * D.M. Scienceman (1991) ''Emergy and Energy: The Form and Content of Ergon.'' Discussion paper. Gainesville: Center for Wetlands, University of Florida. 13 pp. (CFW-91-10) * D.M. Scienceman (1995),
The Emergy Synthesis of Religion and Science
', Center for Environmental Policy,

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. 13pp. * D.M. Scienceman (1997) Letters to the Editor: Emergy definition, ''Ecological Engineering'', 9, pp. 209–212. ISSN 0925-8574, . * D.M. Scienceman (1992),
Emvalue and Lavalue
', Center for Environmental Policy,

. * D.M. Scienceman and B.M. El-Youssef (1993) The System of Emergy Units, in Packham, R. ed. Ethical management of science as a system, International Society for the Systems Sciences, Proceedings of the thirty-seventh annual meeting,

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, Hawkesbury, 5–9 July, pp. 214–223. * D.M. Scienceman and F. Ledoux (2000) Sublimation, in M.T.Brown (ed.) ''Emergy Synthesis:Theory and Applications of the Emergy Methodology'', Proceedings of the 1st Biennial Emergy Analysis Research Conference, Center for Environmental Policy, University of Florida, pp. 317–321. {{DEFAULTSORT:Scienceman, David Australian scientists Systems ecologists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people