Down the High

Been busy of late, what with Morse’s passing and my elevated rise to fame in his place over the weekend. Such is life as an international tv star….not.

Anyway to business.

We received a call from a visiting American scientist who was in Oxford for a symposium over the weekend. Jones was due to give a paper, but obviously did not make it. The scientist, during one of the breaks, went for a walk around the city but more precisely, to pay his respects to Boyle and Hooke down on the High. Back in the Randolph later on,(why do yanks always stay at the Randolph?), downloading the photographs to his laptop, he noticed this one. Recognising it to be Jones, who he had met on several occasions, contacted us.

Its Jones alright, and like the last sighting at the museum, appears to be not quite all there. And stuck in the same position. What is/was he doing?

Lewis

Dr Alan Jones

To give him his full name, Alwyn Eurosswydd Teilo Gynne-Jones but known to his friends as Pryderi. Aged 38, married, wife called Angharad and three children, Addiena, Alun and Anwell, (obviously did not get past the first page of Welsh names) Live in North Oxford and is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University. Was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1994 with Bertram Brockhouse and Clifford Shull for “pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter". Although rarely is he cited, possibly due to his chemistry background.

It is believed he suffers from a mild form of Werner’s syndrome, which accounts for the discrepancy in the picture alongside, which was taken 2 years ago, and the photograph at the MHS last week.

Must get back to the serious work though, there are just too many murders in Oxford to solve.

A sighting.

Received a phone call from the curator of the Museum of the History of Science in Broad Street. Seems like just after he had closed the doors to the public at four o’clock on Saturday, he decided to take some photos of the exhibits in the entrance foyer. A record was how he described it. He had taken a few shots when on taking the next, he suddenly realised that there was a person in the shot. He looked up from the camera to ask the person to leave but nobody was there! Took another look at the screen on the camera, and sure enough, a man standing there. What’s more he knew him, Dr Alan Jones, a frequent visitor to the museum. But after another look around the foyer there was no one there. Even Emily Heynes on the till had not seen anyone.

What do you make of the photo?

Curious.

Lewis

Something different for a change, missing persons!

Well boys and girls, looks like we have another case or should I say cache for you (can S be pronounced CH?)
The scientist, Dr Alan Jones has not been seen since he left the Jet Laboratories at Culham the day before Christmas Eve, and not as reported elsewhere. We have made an appeal to the public for information but to date we have not received anything.
He is the gentleman on the top row, white coat and right of centre.
Can you help?

Lewis