Alexsandr Tischenko
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| Alexsandr Mikhailovich Tischenko, Ph.D. | |
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| Birthday: | Aug 4 |
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| Age: | 33 (when last on Earth) |
| Height: | 6'9" |
| Weight: | 609 pounds |
| First comic: | Accidental Centaurs on January 15, 2002 |
| Favorite movie: | 'Back to the Future' |
| Favorite TV show: | "Beyond the Unknown" |
Alex is a character from the webcomic Accidental Centaurs. He also appeared in the Wotch during the crossover storyline "Accidental Wotch".
Alex is the more calm and rational half of the Accidental Centaurs. He tends to approach the challenges of daily life in otherSpace with an analytical emphasis that, due to the arbitrary nature of the world around him, doesn't always work. He has accepted the changes that have occurred to him as being just another step toward getting home, which will always be his ultimate goal.
Well, that and being with Sam as much as humanly (centaurly?) possible...
[edit] Biography
Dr. Alexsandr Mikhailovich Tischenko is an American-born particle physicist, whose expertise on the fundamental relationships between matter and energy made him a vital member of the KlaeCorp Teleportation Development Team. That is, until a accident during a clandestine test of the system led to him being whisked away to an alternate dimension and finding himself transformed into a being that resembled a classical centaur.
Tischenko, who prefers to be called "Alex", was born in Berkeley, California to Mikhail and Svetlana Tischenko. The Tischenkos had defected to the United States from the Soviet Union shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, and, as scientists, found work at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories. Alex is the oldest of three sons, who, in fine American tradition, can't speak a word of their parents' native tongue (unless he's drunk).
Alex showed an early aptitude for math and science, and attended UC Berkeley, where he got his undergraduate degree. He then went to the other side of the bay for his graduate work, receiving a master's and doctorate from Stanford. He began teaching at Stanford shortly afterward.
However, education was not to be his field. After publishing an influential paper in 1992, Alex was invited to spend time at CERN in Switzerland. He stayed there for five years, doing research that would, he hoped, help find the Higgs boson. While Alex was unable to find this elusive particle, his work in the field is still considered to be vital to the ongoing research into high-energy massive particles. During his time at CERN, he was watching over a colleague's shoulder, telling the co-worker that his idea for a global hypertext computer work had possibilities.
In 1998, Alex ended a sabbatical from CERN and took a job with KlaeCorp in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He laid out the technical and physics challenges that had to be overcome in order to develop a working matter teleportation system. When the KlaeCorp project was approved, he was put in charge of the Physics Department, which brought him into close collaboration with the head of the Information Processing Department, one Dr. Samantha Peterson. The collaboration turned out to be closer than anyone could have imagined.