There is a huge building site at the West Cambridge campus where the Ray Dolby Cavendish III project is underway. Ray Dolby was born in Portland and was a pioneer of the videotape recorder before moving to Pembroke College for a PhD in physics. He went on to develop the noise reduction system & the Dolby logo appears at the screening of every movie. When he died in 2013 he bequeathed £35 million to Pembroke & four years later his family gave £75 million to the Department of Physics. This new development will replace the outdated (60’s?) Cavendish buildings & cost over £300 million. I don’t know if this part will be orange in the end but most of it definitely won’t be.
Weather: cold & cloudy
Covid: 100,000 deaths in the UK - unimaginable a year ago.
Good things: the Dolby Centre will look amazing and have space for public lecture etc - not considered with the previous buildings.
That's going to be quite a facility. Love it when the uber wealthy do good works to benefit humanity.
The Covid death numbers are sobering. We're approaching 430,000 over here.
The Covid death numbers are sobering. We're approaching 430,000 over here.