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Charles M. Falco
American physicist
Charles M. Falco (born August 17, 1948) is an American experimental physicist and an expert on the magnetic and optical properties of thin film materials.[1]
Biography
Falco earned his Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine in 1974 and spent the next eight years at Argonne National Laboratory before joining the University of Arizona in 1982 as a Professor of Optical Sciences. In 1989, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished U.S. Scientist Award, and in 1998 was awarded the UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics. Falco, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) has published more than 250 scientific manuscripts, most of which are related to physical properties of materials produced by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), co-edited two books, has seven U.S. patents, and has given more than 250 invited talks on his research at confere
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Fourteen years ago, Charles Falco was facing a jail sentence of more than 20 years for manufacturing and distributing stimulant drug methamphetamine, when the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in California asked him if he wanted to be an undercover informant instead of going to prison. He said yes.
Right before infiltrating the gangs, he had actually heard about the grisly killing of a man whom gang members suspected of working undercover for the police.
"I heard that they beat him unconscious, duct-taped his eyes, mouth, feet and hands, dumped him in a hole they had dug in the desert, and shot him in the head," he tells Life! in a phone interview.
For seven years, the American infiltrated three of the deadliest biker gangs in the United States - the Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws - and helped in 62 arrests for crimes such as assault and murder.
His time in the Vagos biker gang is brought to life in docudrama series Gangland Undercover, based on his book Vagos, Mongols, And Outlaws: My Infiltration Of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs. In the show, which airs here on the H
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Gangland Undercover
Canadian-American drama television series
| Gangland Undercover | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Stephen Kemp |
| Based on | Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs by Charles Falco with Kerrie Droban |
| Written by | Noel Baker Stephen Kemp |
| Directed by | Stephen Kemp (series dir.) |
| Starring | |
| Opening theme | Russ Mackay "We Will Not Go Quietly" by Sixx: A.M. (Season 2) |
| Composers | Russ Mackay Allan Pynn Paul Pitre |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Executive producers |
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| Producer | Santo Cornacchia Tanga |
| Production location | Ontario, Canada |
| Cinematography | Gary Clarke |
| Editors | Rob Chandler Jason Gatt Mark Holtze Tom Fulford Nathan Mandin Susan Maggi Buff Smith |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production companies | S
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