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14 Feb 2020: Kouichi Murakami visits after 30 years. Kouichi Murakami completed his Ph.D. research at Cambridge during 1993. He is now Chief Executive for Technology at IHI in Japan. IHI is a major engineering industry, formerly known as Ishikawajima Harima

14 Feb 2020: Membre d'Honneur. Harry was elected to an Honorary Membership of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, SF2M. Journey begins with coffee at Cambridge Railway Station. Arrival at King’s Cross Station in London. Tube journey to

8 Oct 2022: Rail moving points. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. The French high-speed rail authorities have mandated that moving points must be made from the carbide-free bainitic steel. Here I took some pictures at the Cambridge rail station to use in a book that I am

8 Oct 2022: X-ray diffraction equipment. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Desktop X-ray diffraction machines for teaching undergraduates the way diffraction data are collected. Everything is manual, for example, the manipulation of the Geiger counter as a function of

7 Jan 2021: Comberton to Toft walk during lockdown. Lots of mud. Stream. This might be field of kale. Beacon in case the Vikings attack. Bridge - with helpful arrow to show direction. Sounds good - already had two cups. Not sure whether this refers to the

14 Feb 2020: Crystallography, Horses, Amir, Aviation. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Shaumik Lenka doing high-resolution two-surface analysis on. bainite sub-units. Habit plane, true shear, orientation. on single

14 Feb 2020: Professor Nirupam Chakraborti honoured in Sweden. #Professor Nirupam Chakraborti of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, has been awarded by International Association of Advanced Materials, the Scientist Medal. The award ceremony was

5 Dec 2022: Bearing failure mechanism. Information courtesy of Parvez Mannan. Parvez Mannan of the Noble Engineering Services, New South Wales in Australia, kindly agreed to make these images and associated information available. The bearing inner race has the

8 Oct 2022: An illustration of mixing. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. Some ink dropped into a jar of ware to show mixing, both by diffusion and a very small amount of flow.

21 Dec 2020: December 2020. Equations generated during a conversation with Hamilton Abreau. Socially distanced walk in the forest. Harry, facing Queen's Common before entering Darwin College. Futile attempt at repairing a coffee machine. Even after buying a

14 Feb 2020: Steel tower. #Photographs courtesy of Dominik Dziedzic and Apparao Chintha.

11 Jul 2020: Mostly cycling, but not entirely, July 2020. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Antarctica, picture courtesy of Sunita Hansraj. Eliran Bar in Darwin College, assembled this bicycle from

14 Feb 2020: Download Harry's paper on the atomic mechanism of the bainite transformation.

12 Jun 2022: Visit to Boston, Schmidt Science Fellows occasion. Harry visited Boston in the USA on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the Schmidt Science Fellowships programme. The objective is toDuring the journey towards Heathrow Airport, spotted this

26 Nov 2021: Harry's retirement dinner at Darwin College. Pictures courtesy of Hong Ge, Adreil Wong, Gebril El-Fallah and Dominik Dziedzic. Dining hall, Darwin College. Harry, Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd, Ji. Adrian Kent sitting somewhat diagonally from Harry.

14 Feb 2020: Chocolates from Mexico, and visitors from Mehran University. Wilberth Alvarez Solano brought these chocolates from Mexico. Cocao originates from Mexico and Central America. Apparao Chintha, Gebril El-Fallah and Wilberth. Professor Tauha Hussain Ali

14 Feb 2020: Random images. Zixin Huang, Dominik Dziedzic and Wen Di wear superbainite paraphenalia. TheHarry's "stay calm, I am a metallurgist" mug disappeared for two months, and then magically returned at the sink on the 5th floor. Gentleman's bicycle

14 Feb 2020: Minerals (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh). Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha. Comments on crack paths?

6 Mar 2021: New Museums Site, Old Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. These pictures show the transformation of the New Museums site after the move of the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy to the new location on West Cambridge. The

14 Feb 2020: John Ray Lecture, St Catherine's College, Cambridge. The talk by Harry was followed by dinner with students (Presidents of the John Ray Society) from the College, at the Ivy Restaurant in Cambridge.

14 Feb 2020: Baby daughter, Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang (and steel). Hee Young and Jae Hoon Jang have a baby daughter, who already has been introduced to steels. Photographs courtesy of Jae Hoon Jang.

14 Feb 2020: Arunim Ray and Wilberth Solano Alvarez in a mine. Following their studies at Cambridge University, both Arunim and Wilberth end up in an underground mine.

12 Jun 2020: Still in lockdown, June 2020. Vegan banana cake. Cherry blossom. Inside of an Amazon Kindle which stopped working. Weed with nice flowers. Back cover of Kindle. Another weed, but nice flower. After some jiggery pokery, the Kindle came alive.

16 Nov 2020: Indian food for Diwali by our Polish colleague Dominik Dziedzic. Diwali celebration at Dominik Dziedzic's apartment. Harry's Diwali. Harry's Diwali. Delicious spiced-tea. Pre-order for March 2021.

14 Feb 2020: UK-China Steel Symposium, July 2018. The symposium was held at the University of Birmingham, organised by Professors Hanshan Dong (Birmingham University) and Hongbiao Dong (Leicester University). There were about 180 participants, including staff

14 Feb 2020: Suresh Babu, tensile specimens, nuts from Libya, nibbles from China. Suresh Babu gives a talk on welding and additive manufacturing. Valve on bicycle tyre. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens. Shaumik Lenka's beautiful tensile specimens.

14 Feb 2020: Lulea University of Technology (LUT), Sweden. Harry visited LUT in order to deliver two lectures on steels and to discuss research and teaching with the staff and students in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics. Some images

14 Feb 2020: Open day, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge. # The LMB will be opening its doors to all on Saturday 17 June. Mathew Peet was involved in the task of explaining scientific principles to children. César Milstein was a Fellow of Darwin

14 Feb 2020: Sites and Sounds. # A fairly random collection of images, including one from the 1993 Gordon Conference. Steel samples designed to study distortion during quenching. The set for "Matilda", a musical at the Cambridge Theatre in London. The set for

14 Feb 2020: View from the top of the Shard. #The Shard is a steel and glass building in London, with the appearance of broken glass with sharp edges. Photographs courtesy of Gebril El-Fallah.

14 Feb 2020: Cleaning the PT Group Laboratory. # Cleaning organised by Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik Dziedzic. Shaumik Lenka. Shaumik Lenka. Chris Hulme-Smith. Dominik Dziedzic. Ailsa Kiely and Chris.

17 Jun 2024: Pictures of steel. These photographs courtesy of Jasmine Tong of the Hunan Great Steel Pipe Company Limited, who sent them in an unsolicited email. Steel. More steel. Even more steel. Published, 2023. October 8th, 2024.

14 Feb 2020: Failed Suffolk 100 mile bike ride. Steve Ooi, Apparao Chintha, Gebril El Fallah and Harry Bhadeshia attempted the 100 mile Suffolk bike ride on the 16th of September 2018. Departed around 5.15 a.m. in Steves car which can hold three bikes, and Gebril

14 Feb 2020: Chris Hulme-Smith's leaving party. #Chris is leaving the University of Cambridge to join KTH Stockholm as Assistant Professor. This video was taken at the Saffron Restaurant in Cambridge, a leaving party. Photographs and video courtesy of Apparao

14 Feb 2020: Crystals, polycrystals and phase transformations. # Crystals represent order. ABCABSCABCABCABCABC., not. On Wendy and Dominik’s desks. Shaumik Lenka. Apparao Chintha and Shaumik Lenka. Di Wen’s desk. Professor Dong Woo Suh, POSTECH, South Korea.

14 Feb 2020: The Jominy End Quench Test. H. K. D. H. Bhadeshia. A heat treatment that causes steel to harden is so much more than the meer plunging of hot metal into a fluid that is often a liquid. The initial red-hot state represents the austenitic condition

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology (WUST), China. Harry's visit during April 2019 was hosted by Professor Wu Kaiming, and involved research discussions and a lecture on difficulties in the theory of diffusion-controlled growth.

14 Feb 2020: Harry at the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo.

14 Feb 2020: Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate, visits Spain. #Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society, visits Santendar for a summer school on biology. He described the structure of ribosomes as revealed using electron

14 Feb 2020: International Conference on Joining and Welding, Peru. The fourth ICONWELD 2018 conference was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), which was founded in 1917. The conference was associated with a display of industrial equipment

11 Mar 2021: Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa wins awards. Professor Kazutoshi Ichikawa (PT Group Member) of Tohoku University has been awarded two major prizes for highly-ductile steel plate for shipbuilding. The first by the Minister of Land, Infrastructure,

14 Feb 2020: Squash championships, 2019. During 2019, there have to date (March 9th) been 36 matches between Apparao Chintha and Harry Bhadeshia. Each match has five sets, each set three games. The score so far is 17 to 19 and one fifth. The matches take place

14 Feb 2020: Professor Zhinan Yang returns to Yanshan University. Professor Zhinan Yang, who is translating the third edition of Bainite in Steels, left the University of Cambridge to return to Yanshan University.

14 Feb 2020: Konark Sun Temple. The Konrak Sun Temple is not far from Puri on the coastline of Oshida, India. There was a steel metallurgy conference held in the vicinity. Pictures courtesy of Apparao Chintha. The temple itself is from 150 BCE.

14 Feb 2020: Gebril El-Fallah and Mathew Peet. # Gebril returned from his trip to see his family in Libya, bearing gifts. Also, Mathew Peet in action at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

14 Feb 2020: Darwin College, Girish Nivarti, Bainite in Steels, Twinned Rainbow. In Darwin College. Chris Hulme-Smith and Dominik. Nirupam Chakraborti sent this from a library in the USA. Girish Nivarti submitting his thesis on flame dynamics. An excerpt from

4 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla, go cycling. October 2020. This has to be one of the most beautiful locations to cycle in. I think this is close to Dimla Lake. Pre-order for March 2021.

2 Oct 2020: Apparao Chintha, Prasad Kopparthi and Gopi Krishna Chejarla, go cycling, October 2020. Appa has now submitted his Ph.D. thesis, so he bought a new bicycle, and the three colleagues from TATA Steel Research and Development in Jamshedpur, India, went

14 Feb 2020: 40th Risø International Symposium on Materials Science, 2019. The Risø International Symposium on Materials Science celebrated its 40. th. anniversary. The meeting was held in Roskilde, Denmark. Hair dressing salon in Roskilde. Walk-in service for

14 Feb 2020: Apparao Chintha at AIST. Apparao attended the American Institute for Steel Technology meeting in Philadelphia. At this meeting, Anand Sen of Tata Steel was presented the Steelmaker of the Year Award. Photographs courtesy of Apparao Chintha.