I have had an exceptionally wide-ranging and successful career (see my entry in Who's Who, which there is no room to repeat here) and in my eighties I am still holding down two exceedingly challenging jobs. I am adviser to the Chancellor of Nizwa University in Oman (since 2012) and as such I am organising the construction and operation of an FFC cell for the making of previously unknown alloys, plus much else, to which end I am a senior research fellow in the Department of Materials Science at Cambridge University and responsible for universities collaboration.

I am also project director and creator of the most extensive global museum of small arms in the Middle East as well as the world's most extensive de facto muzzle-loading artillery museum (in Oman), where the International Council of Museums have held one of their annual conferences.

My Fellowship was on tropical marine biology and was so successful in creating a research group under my direction, which published 54 learned papers in its 13 years' existence, that we have had our 50th anniversary of most of my 100 colleagues.