People and Places

There were very many competent and dedicated people working as part of the UK atomic energy programme, and it is impossible to mention all of them. It may be invidious to concentrate on a few selected individuals, but there are those who need mention either for the roles they performed, or because they were genuinely men of outstanding calibre (and in this context men is the correct word to use very few women were involved in public life in the Britain of the 1950s and 60s, and even today engineering is very much a male-dominated profession). 

The atomic energy programme originally began its life in 1945 as a department of the Ministry of Supply. This had been created in 1939 to coordinate the supply of military equipment to the Armed Forces, and since the early programme was in effect entirely military, this made sense, not least from the logistical point of view. 

When atomic energy was moved out of the Ministry of Supply to become an independent organisation, the AEA, it was headed hy a Chairman. The first two were Edwin Plowden and Roger Makins, two of the class of administrators thrown up by the war. They were followed by William Penney. 

The outstanding success of the early atomic programme can be put down to many factors, but certainly one was the leadership provided by three men John Cockcroft, 

Christopher Hinton and William Penney. Each had extremely able assistants, but there is no doubt the programme would have not achieved anything near as much as it did, in the time that it did, without these three. (General Morgan referred to them as the bold bad barons .) 

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Kaplan, G. A. (1996), People and places Contrasting perspectives on the association between social class and health, International Journal of Health Services, 26, 507-519. 

And it wasn t just breeds of drugs. I found myself sorting out people and places, too. Not that one person was better to work with than the next, or that one location was more worth visiting than any other. Although we were becoming more familiar with the drugs, we still had to choose with whom, as well as when and where, to concentrate our efforts. Obviously, there was no way to come up with foolproof formulas or protocols for such decisions. As in any endeavor, the unpredictable flow of events and opportunities often imposed the decisions upon us. 

Avoiding discussion of the traumatic events Avoiding activities or people and places that could provoke recollections of the trauma General social withdrawal... 

We see here a vegetalista cleansing the body of a person with certain impurities, for example saladera or mal aire, or who is contagious as a result of other people or the places he has been to, as humans are always gathering the influence of people and places. 

Science is a complex activity involving various people and places. A scientist may work alone or in a laboratory, classroom or for that matter anywhere. Mostly science is a group activity requiring lot of social skills, such as cooperation, communication of results or findings, consultations, discussions etc. 

The people to whom you mail vour press releases expect them to he truthful and accurate. Never mislead or attempt to cover up. AI wavs be truthful. Double-check all vour facts and spellings, especially dates, times, and names of people and places. Publications and broadcast stations will judge vour organization by the reliabilitv of the information you put in your press release. A shoddv release can cause damage that could take vears to repair. 

Cue the senses. Partner people and places with their scents, sounds, tastes, textures, or unusual characteristics. Did he have a birthmark on his chin Did the office building smell like old cheese Connecting people and places with sensory cues helps with recall. 

In People and Places , Synge explicitly links Irish beggars physical and mental robustness to their nationality ... 

D. T. Bums, G. Kccardi, L. Sabbatini, Some people and places important in the history of analytical chemistry in Italy, Mikrochim. Acta 160 (2008) 57-87. 

Esch, Gerald W. Parasites, People and Places Essays on Field Parasitology. New York Cambridge University Press, 2004. Anecdotal accounts of parasitology illustrate many aspects of the field and cover elements of the history of parasitology as well as medical and evolutionary investigations of parasite behavior. 

Lang, David Marshall (1963) History of Modern Georgia, Weidenfeld Nicolson Lang, David Marshall (1966) The Georgians (Ancient People and Places, Vol. 51), Thames Hudson... 

Reeves, B., Nass, C. The Media Equation How People Treat Computers, Television and New Media Like Real People and Places. CLSI/Cambridge University Press, Stanford CA/Cambridge (1996)... 

Brun, C. (2001) Retenitorialising the Relatiorrship between People and Place in Refugee Sbidies. Geografisker Annaler 83B 15-25. 

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