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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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Evening in Darwin |
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A mission to Trinity College to see Isaac Newton's manuscripts |
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Awe inspiring settings |
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Peculiar symmetries spotted by Patricio |
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THE apple tree outside of Trinity College |
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