Working for the same Company
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
In 1965 I had applied under the IAESTE scheme to do work experience related to my Metallurgy degree at Liverpool University in SKF's plant in central Sweden. When I arrived, I was told that there was another Metallurgy undergrad from Newcastle University who had started in the plant the previous week. We met up and became friends over the 3 months we worked there.
In September 1966, having graduated, I started work at International Nickel's (INCO) Research Laboratory in Birmingham. Whilst I was being shown around the facility on my first day, I was shown into the High Temperature Materials Department and immediately bumped into the same person with whom I had worked in Sweden, the previous year! Again he had started at INCO the previous week!
We continued our friendship until finally we were both made redundant on the same day in 1972!
Date submitted:Wed, 30 May 2012 15:06:32 +0000Coincidence ID:6404
