Author Archives: David Weston

Dr Vrba

From a hod To An odd EM wave    A memoir of  Engineering Persistence and Human Discovery A remarkable Journey from the UK via Germany, USA, Taiwan, and  Canada.  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.Continue reading “Dr Vrba”

Vatzlav Nijinsky, famous ballet dancer

To An odd EM wave    A memoir of  Engineering Persistence and Human Discovery 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 andContinue reading “Vatzlav Nijinsky, famous ballet dancer”

School, fine woodworking, Luthier

From a To An odd EM wave    A memoir of  Engineering Persistence and Human Discovery A remarkable Journey from the UK via Germany, USA, Taiwan, and  Canada.  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. ItContinue reading “School, fine woodworking, Luthier”

Dr. Vrba and Auscwitz

I worked alongside Dr Rudolf Vrba at the medical Research Council, Carshalton, England, he was one of only four to escape from Auschwitz. He tells of being captured by the Nazis and standing packed in a railway coach with others for hours without water and the agony they went through on hearing the train taking onContinue reading “Dr. Vrba and Auscwitz”

Medical Research Council

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 inContinue reading “Medical Research Council”

Excursions, Nude Beaches, Brookhaven National Lab

I and my colleagues 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 FrisianContinue reading “Excursions, Nude Beaches, Brookhaven National Lab”