6 Jun 2022
by Owen Morton

infocus #66 June 2022 37-year-old mystery is solved as ‘long-lost’ Fellow rejoins RMS!

As Ferey Faridian rummaged through a box of documents at his home in California, he came across an intriguing old letter.

The 65-year-old’s interest was piqued for three reasons: firstly, because the missive appeared to relate to his much-cherished time as a young academic at University College London in the 1980s, and secondly, because he suddenly recalled receiving a letter from the RMS at a scientific meeting around that time. The greatest intrigue of all, however, arose from the fact that the top half of the paper – and therefore almost all the letter’s content - was missing.