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4 unusual facts about Culham


Clive Farahar

In 1972 Farahar joined the staff of a bookshop in Culham, between Abingdon and Oxford, before becoming a market trader at Bath Antiques Market where he sold books during the week and worked as a wine waiter at weekends in order to make ends meet.

European School, Culham

The European School in Culham, Oxfordshire, is one of fourteen European Schools around Europe and the only one in United Kingdom and currently has around 800 nursery/primary (4–11 years old) and secondary (11–18 years old) students.

Paul-Henri Rebut

In 1973, he was appointed as head of the design team for JET, at the Culham laboratory, near to Oxford.

Tom Høyem

Høyem served as headmaster of the European School Culham (1987-1994), then moved to Germany, where he became the principal of the European School Munich (1994-2000) and, thereafter, the European School Karlsruhe (see below).


Christopher Llewellyn Smith

Until 2009 he was Director of UKAEA Culham Division, which holds the responsibility for the United Kingdom's fusion programme and operation of the Joint European Torus (JET).

Cyclamen rhodium

peloponnesiacum J. Compton & Culham is pink with a deep carmine-pink mouth and grows in shaded woodland in the Taygetus Mountains in the southern Peloponnese and near Mt. Aroania in the north.

Institute for Plasma Research

The scientists of the Centre are working in close collaboration with national and international institutes like Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay, Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Calcutta, Kyushu University, Japan, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Culham Laboratory, UK, and Flinders University, Australia, to name a few.

Randy Horton

A top level cricketer offered trials to play for Worcestershire County Cricket Club, Horton turned down the opportunity to play English County cricket and Football League football for Huddersfield Town to stay in a warmer climate following completing his Oxford University Institute of Education Teacher Training Certificate from Culham College in Oxfordshire, England.

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

The Authority became a contractor for the NDA for the decommissioning work at Dounreay, Harwell, Windscale, Winfrith and the JET facilities at Culham.


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