On return from Los Alamos, Fuchs worked at the nuclear research establishment at Harwell.

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As part of this push, the government last year inaugurated the International Space Innovation Centre (ISIC) based at Harwell in Oxfordshire.

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The machine first ran in 1951 and was known as the Harwell Dekatron - so named for the valves it used as a memory store.

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The commitment to Esa will see the agency base its satellite telecommunications headquarters in the UK, expanding its recently opened technical centre in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

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Mrs Waggott said Didcot Town Council and Harwell Parish Council had shown a keen interest and were due to discuss the proposal at their meetings next month.

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"Jimmy isn't stepping aside, because his attitude is, never has this company been more in need of leadership at the top, " said Aubrey Harwell, lead outside counsel for Pilot Flying J.

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In mitigation the court was told that scientists and experts investigating the incident could not agree on the risk of explosion following the incident in room B220 at the Harwell site.

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Moving over to a side stage, Harwell was able to perform another tune--and this time, the main screen of the keynote stage showed a full-on virtual Smash Mouth, with digital avatars of each band member reflecting their real-world movements.

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By 1957 the machine was being outstripped by faster, smaller computers and it was handed over to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College (more recently Wolverhampton University) where it was used to teach programming and began to be called the Witch (Wolverhampton Instrument for Teaching Computation from Harwell).

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