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The result was delete‎. Owen× ☎ 00:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Peter Ventzek (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Fails notability guidelines for academics. Sgubaldo (talk) 21:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Academics and educators, Science, Engineering, Japan, and United States of America. Sgubaldo (talk) 21:21, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Seems to me that the AVS award alone passes C2 of WP:NPROF, and meeting one criterion is sufficient.Qflib (talk) 05:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Change to Delete, thanks to JoelleJay, as I now see that this award is only available to AVS members and therefore it does not satisfy C2. Qflib (talk) 02:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I don't think an award from the American Vacuum Society, in a specialty he previously chaired for that society, reaches the level of prestige expected for NPROF C2. I'm not seeing anything else to indicate a notable career; his citations aren't particularly astonishing for his field on Scopus.

JoelleJay (talk) 06:14, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just curious - do you think the award is not sufficient for satisfaction of C2 simply because it's awarded by the AVS? Or because it's in his field of specialization? Or both? I'm honestly not following. Qflib (talk) 17:16, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think the award is anywhere close to distinguished enough to be comparable to e.g. a Guggenheim Fellowship. The fact that he was previously chair of that subspecialty for AVS makes it even more clearly a minor internal award within the society. JoelleJay (talk) 23:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly not comparable to a Guggenheim, agree. But AVS is a pretty prominent organization and this is not an "internal award" by any means. See here: https://avs.org/awards/division-group-awards/plasma-science-technology-division-plasma-prize/ . These awardees are prominent scientists and engineers in this field. Qflib (talk) 18:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Plasma Science & Technology Division requires nominees be AVS Platinum members. It's exclusively an internal award. JoelleJay (talk) 20:48, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying; somehow I'd missed that. Qflib (talk) 02:33, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. "Ventzek joined Hokkaido University in Japan as associate professor." We almost never find associate professors to be notable. His subsequent work was for profit. Bearian (talk) 15:12, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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