The Sterling Cable Works was established nearby and AWE Aldermaston and AERE Harwell, together with the RLC Depot at Station Road, ( which closed down in 1999 ) have all brought employment and increasing prosperity to the area.

However, in 1956 the walls started to come down, and when they visited ZETA at Harwell, US researchers became aware that they were about to be trumped.

Six former Oriole franchise radio announcers have received the Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting: Chuck Thompson ( who was also the voice of the old NFL Baltimore Colts ); Jon Miller ( now with the San Francisco Giants ); Ernie Harwell, Herb Carneal ; Bob Murphy and Harry Caray ( as a St. Louis Browns announcer in the 1940s.

* Mammalian Genetics Unit Harwell: Mouse models for human disease

Paper tape reader on an Harwell computer | early computer with a small piece of five hole tape connected in a circle-presumably for testing purposes

* Ernie Harwell, legendary Major League baseball announcer for the Detroit Tigers, was married to Hazard native Lulu Tankerseley.

* Shawn Harwell, co-writer of The Campaign ( film ) 2012 and a staff writer for the HBO series Eastbound and Down graduated from Hibriten High School in 1995.

Abingdon is close to several major scientific employers: the UKAEA at Culham ( including the Joint European Torus ( JET ) fusion research project ), Harwell Laboratory, the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the new Diamond Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 40 years.

After some plot twists, a second murder and a scene involving the hidden rivers and Victorian sewers that run under London, it is revealed that Harwell unintentionally killed his wife in a jealous rage, in the belief she was preparing to entertain a lover, although ironically her preparations had really been for him.

** Artsimovich gives a talk at Harwell on pinch devices, revealing for the first time that the USSR is also working on fusion.

Since then, The Corner has been used periodically to videotape special segments, such as the appearance of Denny McLain on Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory and a pregame piece for the 2005 Major League Baseball All-Star Game featuring Ernie Harwell.

There are a number of major scientific employers nearby including the UKAEA at Culham ( and the Joint European Torus ( JET ) fusion research project ), Harwell Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council ( the research council responsible for Rutherford Appleton Laboratory ) and the Diamond Light Source synchrotron, which is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 30 years Didcot is also the base of operations for the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World Mission.

Until the Second World War Harwell may have been best known for its cherry orchards.

In 1946 the airfield was taken over to be the new Atomic Energy Research Establishment, the main centre for nuclear power research in the UK, and become Harwell Laboratory.

The Atomic Energy Research Establishment ( known as AERE or colloquially Harwell ) near Harwell, Oxfordshire, was the main centre for atomic energy research and development in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1990s.

The decision to site AERE at Harwell had huge implications for a rural area which had depended mainly on agriculture for employment before World War II.

Harwell and other laboratories were to assume responsibility for atomic energy research and development.

In 1941, Harwell Hamilton Harris was chosen as secretary of the American branch of CIAM, which was the Chapter for Relief and Post War Planning, founded in New York City.

William Earnest " Ernie " Harwell ( January 25, 1918 – May 4, 2010 ) was an American sportscaster, known for his long career calling play-by-play of Major League Baseball games.

Ernie Harwell grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, working in his youth as a paperboy for the Atlanta Georgian ; one of his customers was writer Margaret Mitchell.

After graduating, Harwell worked as a copy editor and sportswriter for the Atlanta Constitution.

In, Harwell became the only announcer in baseball history to be traded for a player when the Brooklyn Dodgers ' general manager, Branch Rickey, traded catcher Cliff Dapper to the Crackers in exchange for breaking Harwell's broadcasting contract.

Ernie Harwell: My 60 Years in Baseball, with Tom Keegan.

Harwell appeared as an interview subject in the 1998 documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg and contributed to numerous other baseball-themed documentaries and retrospectives over the years.

Suspicion falls on a writer known to have been in love with Mrs Harwell, and a talented but bohemian painter who had been working on portraits of both Harriet and the murdered woman.

In the early 1930s, Neutra's Los Angeles practice trained several young architects who went on to independent success, including Gregory Ain, Harwell Hamilton Harris, and Raphael Soriano.

These players ' names, along with the names of Hall of Fame players who spent a significant part of their career with the Tigers, are also on a wall in left center field, and to them is added Ernie Harwell, the team's long-time radio announcer, who is also in the Hall of Fame as a broadcaster.

Harwell has a statue just inside the stadium on the first base side.

Harwell's remaining public house, The Hart of Harwell, is on the corner of High Street.

The Harwell Feast is a celebration held on the Monday of the May Bank Holiday each year.

RAF Harwell, was some sixteen miles south of Oxford near Didcot and the village of Harwell, and on 1 January 1946 the Atomic Energy Research Establishment was formed, coming under the Ministry of Supply.

For 55 years, 42 of them with the Detroit Tigers, Harwell called the action on radio and / or television.

In January 2009, the American Sportscasters Association ranked Harwell 16th on its list of Top 50 Sportscasters of All Time.

Harwell broadcast for the Dodgers through, the New York Giants from – ( including his call of Bobby Thomson's " shot heard ' round the world " in the third and deciding game of the 1951 National League tie-breaker series, simulcast nationally on NBC television ), and the Baltimore Orioles from –.

During spring training of that year, Harwell announced that he would retire at the end of the season — this time on his own terms ; his final broadcast came on September 29, 2002.

Following his retirement, Harwell came back briefly in 2003 to call a Wednesday Night Baseball telecast on ESPN, as part of that network's " Living Legends " series of guest announcers.

In 2005, Harwell guested for an inning on the Fox network's coverage of the All-Star Game ( which was held in Detroit that year ), as well as an inning on the ESPN Radio broadcast.

Harwell served as a guest color commentator for two Tiger games on FSN Detroit on May 24 and 25, 2007.

( Harwell had filled in for Allen once before, on a telecast.

The first published report of a female with a 45, X karyotype was in 1959 by Dr. Charles Ford and colleagues in Harwell, Oxfordshire and Guy's Hospital in London.

The couple become slightly acquainted with Laurence Harwell, a wealthy theatrical " angel ", and his beautiful wife, whom he has rescued from poverty following her rich father's disgrace and imprisonment.

Harwell might have gotten off with a manslaughter conviction, but except that he later committed the premeditated murder of an actress who was in a position to disprove his alibi and tried to blackmail him.

Harriet visits Harwell in prison to comfort him with the knowledge that his wife had not, after all, been unfaithful.

Rescued by her marriage to Harwell two years previously-deeply in love, but given to friendly relations with other men and bored because she has little to occupy her days.

Passionately in love with Rosamund Harwell, and very jealous of her husband, who offered to stage his first play.

Acquainted with Harwell, and her family home is close to the Harwells ' country cottage.

The engineers at Harwell eventually decided that this small reactor should be put to some use, so the air that flowed over it was directed through an underground trench were it some pipes filled with water that connect to a secondary group of water filed pipes that used by the near by establishments to heat offices.

( Harwell was brought to Brooklyn to substitute for regular Dodger announcer Red Barber, who was hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer.

Harwell teamed with Ray Lane in the broadcast booth from 1967-72.

Rick Rizzs was hired away from the Seattle Mariners to call Detroit's games in 1992, teaming with Bob Rathbun, but they were not as popular as Harwell and Carey had been.

The 1993 season concluded with a three-person radio team ( Rizzs, Rathbun and Harwell ) with Harwell calling play-by-play for innings 1 – 3 and 7 – 9 of each game.

Harwell would also begin the first spring training broadcast of each season with a reading from Song of Solomon 2: 11-12 ( KJV ): " For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone ; the flowers appear on the earth ; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

A devout Christian, Harwell had long been involved with the Baseball Chapel, an evangelistic organization for professional ballplayers.

On April 26, 2008 Harwell was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from The University of Michigan at their Spring Commencement ceremony.

On September 3, 2009, Harwell announced that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, and that he, his family and doctors had decided against surgery or other treatment of the condition.