Subject:  John Nash Ott has died (Lundquist)..
Date:     Wed, 12 Apr 2000 161035 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......Another **true** scientist has been lost!!  He was a
friend of Dr. John Evans of our list, who first brought Dr. Ott
to our attention three or four years ago.....

Well, perhaps Dr. Ott will meet up with Dr. Goldsmith "up there"
and the two will be inclined to visit about Mother Nature's "dirty
little secret" -- which few of the scientists "down here" seem to
want to talk about.....

Thanks Margie......  It is an interesting "obit" below, too.....

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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Date: 12 Apr 00 12:06:34 MDT
From: MARJORIE LUNDQUIST 
To: rbeavers@llion.org
Subject: John Nash Ott has died

The Chicago Tribune of April 12, 2000, carried a notice of the death in
Sarasota, FL, of John Nash Ott (in Bob Greene's column in the Tempo
section of the paper).

Dr. Ott (the Dr. was honorary) began his career as a banker, but became
interested in photography and especially, in time-lapse photography.
When he got commissions to take time-lapse photographs of the blooming of
flowers, he found out the hard way that the quality of the light to which
the plant was exposed had a definite effect on the blossoming of the
plant.  This started him on a life-long investigation of the effects of
light (and different kinds of light) on the reproduction and behavior of
living things:  plants, animals and human beings.  He wrote a number of
books, which can be found at local libraries, and they make very
interesting reading.

Bob Greene tells a story about John Nash Ott and the effect he has had on
the game of baseball, which is new to me.  (Sarasota is where baseball
teams winter, and hold their spring training.)

In the early 1970s Rex Bowen, a scout for the Cincinnati Reds, sought out
Dr. Ott with a question about baseball caps.  By tradition, the underside
of the visor on baseball caps worn by major league players was green.
Told this, Dr. Ott said the green color could hamper the performance of the
players on the field.  The underside of the visor should be gray in color, not
green, he said.

Rex Bown apparently was able to persuade the management of the Cincinnati
Reds to switch the color according to Dr. Ott's recommendation.  As soon
as they began wearing the gray-visored caps, the Reds improved.  Players'
batting averages and running speeds went up, they became more mentally
alert, and they went on to win the National League pennant.

[.......The Reds had a number of other reasons for their success in those
years, too ... Johnny Bench - probably the greatest "catcher" the game has
yet produced, etc.....  And Sparky Andrson was their manager - also one of
the "greats" of the game....  Both are now in the Hall of
Fame with more of their team-mates of what some regard as
the best "balanced" team - hitting, fielding and piching - of all
time......guru.....]

At least, this is what Dr. Ott told Bob Green years ago during an
interview.  mAnd Dr. Ott attributed the team's improved performance on the
field to the change in color of the underside of the visor on the caps the
players wore. Dr. Ott's view was that, just as people need a certain
amount of v