We've been satisfied to believe that our boy Henry's character is named after Dorothy Gale's Uncle from Kansas, or at least I've been satisfied to believe so.


Heck, even Michael Emerson mentions the OZ connection in one of his interviews.

But my recent obsession with everything LOST inspired me to do a search and
Lo and Behold...
Henry Gale was a real live physicist!!!

died in 1942

Check it out:
http://www.aip.org/history/ead/chicago_gale/20010100_content.html

Papers/Records created by:

Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942.
Short description of collection:

The papers of Henry Gordon Gale comprise 12.5 linear feet of personal and professional material, spanning the years 1889-1948. The materials document Gale's career as a physicist, from his time as a student in the early years of the University of Chicago, to his retirement from the Faculty of the Physics Department in 1940. The papers consist of professional and personal correspondence; notes, manuscripts, and reprints; and personal material such as photographs, biographical material, and documents from his Army service and university employment. The collection also includes some correspondence and personal material of his wife, Agnes Spofford Cook Gale.

Wow! Great Find! :ntworthy:

Hey thanks!!!! :redface:

There's a Wiki on him also.
Apparantly he was working on astro-physics!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gale

i tend to believe he was named after the wizard of oz. it seems to have more body, being there was a hot air balloon

We've been satisfied to believe that our boy Henry's character is named after Dorothy Gale's Uncle from Kansas, or at least I've been satisfied to believe so.


Heck, even Michael Emerson mentions the OZ connection in one of his interviews.

But my recent obsession with everything LOST inspired me to do a search and
Lo and Behold...
Henry Gale was a real live physicist!!!

died in 1942

Check it out:
http://www.aip.org/history/ead/chicago_gale/20010100_content.html

Papers/Records created by:

Gale, Henry Gordon, 1874-1942.
Short description of collection:

The papers of Henry Gordon Gale comprise 12.5 linear feet of personal and professional material, spanning the years 1889-1948. The materials document Gale's career as a physicist, from his time as a student in the early years of the University of Chicago, to his retirement from the Faculty of the Physics Department in 1940. The papers consist of professional and personal correspondence; notes, manuscripts, and reprints; and personal material such as photographs, biographical material, and documents from his Army service and university employment. The collection also includes some correspondence and personal material of his wife, Agnes Spofford Cook Gale.GF, you never cease to amaze me! I think this would make a much more logical tie-in. Perhaps the balloon was to throw us off the scent?