Happy Birthday
by Justus Heimann
PhD Defense of Geir Westgaard
with Horst Nowacki, Justus Heimann, Bernd Käther and Stefan Harries
Dear Horst Nowacki,
Happy Birthday to you!
After all these years I’m still thankful that I had the chance to be temporally part of your universe.
The hitherto uncharted working field – computer aided naval architecture and engineering – you’ve established, probably, as the first of its kind and surely unique in the way you’ve embodied it, definitely changed the paradigms of our research field but also of our industry. I’m not lying when I say your topics touched me most as a student and later as a research assistant in your team. And, not surprisingly, most of it I still have around me. Thanks for your inspiration and giving me the skills and tools at hand being of highest value in my working life. Fascination is alive and I really enjoy what I do as a naval architect, every day!
Only a few people can say, they had the pleasure to meet someone being as ingenious, enthusiastic, educated, of profound knowledge and an aesthete – but still humorous – like you. Keep it up!
Thank you!
Justus Heimann