[PatrickHenry]

Alexander Franklin Mayer is listed as an "Affiliate" of the Stanford Physics department: yeah, I got a source.

[longshadow]

..... "Affiliate"......

an interestingly vague job title. I wonder what it means. I'm guessing that "student" and "professor" are excluded as possibilities. Maybe he's a lab technician. Somebody has to keep all those inclined planes in good working order....