Famous people in ruislip 05 Mystery Cache
Famous people in ruislip 05
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Cache isnt at pubblished coors but can be found with in 2 miles. The pubblished coors is the area x was born.
Your looking for a mirco container bring own writing utinsil.
X was an outstanding optical mineralogist and pioneer collaborator applying the electron microprobe topetrology. His involvement in the Apollo program brought him to the attention of the British media and public x was born to a Scandinavian father and English mother. He went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1932, the first year of C E Tilley’s new Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, and attained a first class degree. This was followed by a Ph.D, which was a substantial study of Scottish metamorphics, under P.C. Phillips at Cambridge in 1938. He went to join the staff at Manchester University and in 1939 on the outbreak of World War II was put to work studying industrial slag mineralogy in order to improve the efficiency of the furnace process. In 1949 he returned to Cambridge University as a Lecturer and as Museum Curator in Tilley’s Department. He carried on with his work in laterites and widened his interest to calcarcous rocks. With the collaboration of J. V. P. Long began using the electron microprobe to study rocks and minerals. He took in hand an extensive but ill-organized collection of meteorites in the museum and from his study with electron probe work discovered the “ x effect”, the decrease in the nickel content ofkamacite as a boundary with taenite is approached. In 1962 x was appointed Visiting Professor on the American Geological Institute scheme. For two and a half years he was busy with Professorships at theUniversity of Minnesota and at Berkeley and occasional field trips. His work on meteorites, and the discovery of the x effect, led to him being accepted not only as a Principal lunar sample Investigator for the Apollo program but also the only non-American petrologist member of the preliminary examination team at Houston. When he returned to Britain with moon rock in a carpet bag, he almost became a national celebrity for his appearances as the “expert geologist” in the BBC television coverage of astronauts collecting lunar rocks and soils. He was pioneer in bringing geology to the general public. He published seminal papers on the constitution of the lunar soil and on lunar basalt mineralogy. X became a Fellow of Trinity Hall in 1964 Once interest in the Apollo programme declined.
Cache is at N51.AB.CDE W000 FG.HIJ
X's DOB=ABCDEFGH
X's DEATH=IJKLMNOP
A=F - P
B=L+M*I
C=F - O
D=H+I
E=D*H-I
F=N-P-E
G=B-L-M
H=D+P
I=A+E
J=P+H
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Chmmyr - jub vf k
pnpur - onfr bs gerr va n ubyr orfvqr vil,
Arkg gb arj tngr
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