| Born 30 OCT 1958 in Kingston upon Hull, England. | |
| Star sign: Scorpio. (No - I don't believe in this claptrap - but most people seem to put it on their site). | |
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Employment. |
| 1963-1969 Endsleigh Primary, Hull | 1975-1985 Croda Premier Oils . Laboratory Assistant, Edible Oils. |
| 1969-1971 St John Fisher, Hull | 1985-1987 Cargill PLC , Laboratory Technician, Edible Oils. |
| 1971-1975 Marist College, Hull. | 1987-2012 BP Chemicals , Laboratory Technician, Petrochemicals. |
| Religion: Atheist "Couldn't have put it better myself" | |
| Heroes:
Isaac Newton
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Brian Clough
, Cosmonaut
Valeri Ryumin
, Soviet rocket designer
Sergei Korolev
, Lance Armstrong (cyclist), Friedrich Nietzsche , Carl Sagan (US Cosmologist), Richard Feynman (US Physicist), Science writer, Isaac Asimov. |
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| Favourite websites: http://www.xcweather.co.uk As a cyclist, I find myself checking the wind direction many times a day. http://hfradio.org/swbc Enter a shortwave frequency and find out what's on air. http://www.heavens-above.com The best sky map site there is. http://www.thepaperboy.com/welcome.html Find a newspaper anywhere in the world. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is the site for finding how everything works, from diets to nuclear reactors. |
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| Favourite Book:
Guy
Murchie: Music of the Spheres: The Material Universe, from Atom to Quasar, Simply Explained. |
Favourite Food: Indonesian Rijstafel . |
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Interests: Astronomy , Short Wave Radio , Real Ale , Chemistry , reading Science textbooks, the secret Soviet moon programme , taking Saunas, Cycling. |
