John Gibbs sent a photograph from the USA so that I would recognise him on his arrival in Cambridge. As subsequent photographs show, he is more relaxed in the U.K.
John Gibbs (Northwestern University, Chicago) arrived at Heathrow at 8 a.m. to be followed by Professor Patricio Mendez of the University of Alberta. This is John relaxing.
An interesting steel joint with concrete at Heathrow Terminal 5
Patricio in his Darwin College guest room
and with his dessert in the evening meal
This is John's dessert
and the best is last, guess whose dessert this is.
The next day, enjoying the beautiful cambridge weather, coffee break
This is lunch in Darwin, with an astronomer to the left of John, and atmospheric chemist, astronomer and egyptologist to the right of Patricio
In the Darwin gardens
Another tea break
John Gibbs, Mikhail Chernikov (Moscow Iron and Steel Institute), Olga Ushakova (Moscow Iron and Steel Institute) and Patricio, for lunch in Darwin.
Patricio has a modern, well-equipped welding laboratory at Alberta. Here he admires an ancient welding kit, which is war surplus, still in use in Cambridge
King's College
Professor Lu Jiande was a student in Darwin College during 1983, now Director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, visiting Cambridge with his wife.
Evening in Darwin
A mission to Trinity College to see Isaac Newton's manuscripts
Awe inspiring settings
Peculiar symmetries spotted by Patricio
THE apple tree outside of Trinity College
