User:Calvete

Surname: Calvete
First name: Louis
[email protected]

Born in University College Hospital, London in 1923, British but of Spanish parents (from Navarre, Spain), thus bilingual in English/Spanish, educated at Kimbolton School
Currently living in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL8 6DG, England, United Kingdom.

1939 Emigrated to Quito, Ecuador, worked in pharmaceutical company and later in the British Embassy.
1946 Returned to England and resumed studies and started work at

I.C.I.

on gases at very high pressures.
1952 B.Sc. in Chemistry and Mathematics at University of London. Fellow of Royal Institute of Chemistry. Research on acrylic resins and other polymers.
1967 Statistical/computer methods in financial, economic and experimental data. Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
1975 Export Manager Latin America and West Africa.
1980 Retired from I.C.I.
1986 Qualified Translator by

Institute of Translation and Interpreting

.
2000 Retired from professional activities. Interests:

The early technical history of Ladies' Hairdressing - see: Perm (hairstyle)
The Life and Work of Nestor Cambier (Belgian painter) - see: Nestor Cambier
Currently modifying entry Lumbier
Genealogy
Photograph archiving and manipulation

Would be interested in historical/social research using above experience and knowledge of Spanish.

email address: [email protected]