That video presents "Dame" Isabel Piczek as a particle physicist, but the internet doesn't know her as that, it knows her as a "mosaic artist." More dubious qualifications of shroudies?
Quantum confusion indeed, Filippo Lippi.
Here
http://www.fishpond.com.au/c/Books/a/Dame+Isabel+Paczek
the lady is Dame Isabel Paczek, yet in the vid she's identified as Dame Isabel Piczek.
Could be the same person, I'll hunt out some images of both names. The hairdo wold probably clinch matters, I daresay.
Ah.
Apparently the lady is both a physicist AND artist.
Hmm.
Others claim the is not a physicist.
What I do know is she's connected to the Friends of the Shroud.Com (director) as well as the Turin Shroud Center of America (director). Both concerns are private businesses.
According to wiki, she and her sister made the mural behind the altar of the st Thomas Aquinas Cathedral in Reno, Nevada
" The great mural painting behind the altar is 3,500 square feet (330 m2) and was the first mural executed by Hungarian artists Edith and Isabel Piczek. "
Edith, the sister, died in 2012 in her obituary
http://www.the-tidings.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2855 we read
"Edith Piczek (like her sister) was born in Hungary where their father was a noted artist and art professor, and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After World War II, however, the sisters fled to Rome during the Communist regime to pursue their work in sacred art.
There, they won a 1949 competition to paint a mural at Rome’s Pontifical Biblical Institute — to the chagrin of the priests who, upon learning that the sisters were teenagers, hesitated to let them finish the project. Several years and 42 murals later, the Piczeks had removed all doubt about their qualifications."
So, particle physicist, not likely.
Here's anther biography of the lady
http://www.lasvegas-diocese.org/GA_Gallery.html
"
Isabel Piczek, born in Hungary, began the study of art at an early age under the guidance of her father, Zoltan Piczek, who was himself an artist.
She had her first exhibition of works at the age of eleven. She won several first prizes through the next three rears, clearly establishing her career as an artist.
Sharing those formative years with Isabel, her sister Edith nurtured her own artistic capacity. Their artistic partnership blossomed and matured through the years, which makes their personal history difficult to separate.
The Sisters were only young students, when already they were beginning to visualize the contours of a new Sacred Art form, — a new world culture — and they knew there would he no opportunity to create that in the suppressed world behind the iron Curtain under a Communist regime. It was not an easy decision, yet there could he no alternative. They must attempt an escape across the border to Austria. It was extremely dangerous, but good fortune prevailed and they found their way to freedom.
After a brief stay in Vienna, they “painted” their way across Europe, traveling from one monastery to the other, enduring great hardships along the way-which included crossing three borders on foot, once for three days they wondered in the snow of the Alps, finally finding their way to the Italian side. From there they traveled on to Rome which was to become their home for the next three years."
And so on.
So, particle physicist, no.
Dame is a Hungarian honour and her stained glass work is rather good, IMO.
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