Bill Higgins

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Chicago-area fan Bill Higgins (more formally, William Skeffington Higgins) is a leading light of Midwest fandom, where his always-smiling face with its chinstrap beard is a frequent sight at cons, typically surrounded by a bevy of friends and acquaintances. He commonly uses Beam Jockey as an online sobriquet.

A radiation safety physicist by profession, with a long career at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Higgins frequently speaks on science-track panels at cons. He is an occasional fanwriter and fanhistorian and can sometimes be found playing the baritone ukelele at filksings.

He belongs to General Technics and was a regular at Thursday. Higgins contributes to Live Journal with "Eponymously Yours, W. Skeffington Higgins," where he used to post on fannish topics.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 1980 -- Whatcon II
• 1987 -- Conquistador IV
• 1990 -- Millennicon -11
• 1990 -- ConClave 15
• 1993 -- Windycon XX
• 1993 -- DucKon 2
• 1996 -- Nanocon 8
• 1998 -- Congenial 9
• 1990 -- Capricon 10
• 2007 -- Moonbase ConFusion
• 2013 -- DucKon 22
• 2014 -- Boskone 51

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