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An odd EM wave
A memoir of Engineering Persistence and Human Discovery.
A remarkable Journey from the UK via Germany, USA, Taiwan and Canada.
David. A. Weston
Reminiscences on the human dimension of an engineering career. Charts an unconventional engineering career spanning multiple continents and decades, offering insights rarely found in traditional engineering literature. It starts at the age of 15 on a building site in England and ends, as described by a reviewer, as a distinguished engineer. A reviewer describes it as both heart warming and heart breaking. It serves as an inspiration and a practical roadmap.
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In looking at the photo of the members of the Neuropsychiatric Research Council at the Medical Research Council it is sobering to think that very few would still be alive. They would have to be about 87 or older to still be alive. One would hope that some of their studies had a benefit in the alleviation in mental desease. Dr Alec Coppen was born in 1923 and died on 15 March 2019. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and acted as director of the Medical Research Council Unit for Neuropsychiatric Research in Epsom, England, until 1988. He discovered the e role of serotonin in the pathogenesis of depression. His seminal paper in the Lancet 1963 showed that tryptophan markedly potentiated the antidepressant action of MAOIs (Monoamine oxidase Inhibitors).
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I and my colleaugues from the company Plath in Hamburg went on a cruise along the Rhine and after seeing the umpteenth castle we went from saying how beautiful, when we set out, to not another fxxxxng Castle.
An excursion I went on alone was to the island of Sylt, one of the North Frisian islands in the North sea, in Germany. At the time it was, unlike now, not often visited. I walked along the beach until I came to a little man with a cap and a whistle and nothing else. He said this is a nude beach.
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Although I have been working on my two books almost non stop for the last two years I also take three or four weeks off to go to Barbados. This is to partially escape the Canadian Winter, which goes on from December to April. To love Barbados you must understand it is a different but great and fun culture the people are usually very friendly and helpful.
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