Professor Richard B Hoover visits Cheltenham

The Ballroom in Cheltenham hosts Professor Richard B Hoover

The Ballroom Indian restaurant in Cheltenham’s Montpellier was the venue for a special dinner hosted by Dr Holley Martlew for guest of honour NASA scientist Professor Richard B Hoover.

Guests listened to Prof Hoover – a Professor of the Russian Academy of Science, Inventor of the Year for the water-window X-ray microscope, and American Optical Society gold medal-winner – talk about his ground-breaking research into diatoms and how they have been found in meteorites, and may be the building blocks of life on Earth or any other planet.

Guest of honor Prof Richard B Hoover with illustrations of diatoms (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Andy Toohig and Liz Perry (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Ian and Anita Davidson (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Mondo Guidetti and Richard Woolley (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Tony and Helen Newman (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Tony and Helen Newman (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Rosemary and Graham Thornton (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Dr Richard and Clair Hayman (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Dr Richard and Clair Hayman (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Guest of honor Prof Richard B Hoover with illustrations of diatoms (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

Guest of honor Prof Richard B Hoover with illustrations of diatoms (Image: © Thousand Word Media)

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