Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley

Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley FRS ( born October 29, 1904 in Burnley, † February 17, 1970 ) was a British electrical engineer.

Training

Willis Jackson was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie, née Hiley. By 1925, he studied electrical engineering at the Victoria University of Manchester. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree with distinction and after he had received three scholarships. In 1926 he graduated from the Master of Science.

Career

After his training, Willis Jackson was until 1929 first professor of electrical engineering at Bradford Technical College (now the University of Bradford). The following year he worked as a trainee for the electric company Metropolitan - Vickers. From 1930 he taught at the Institute of Science and Technology of the University of Manchester and from 1933 at Queen 's College, Oxford. In 1936 he graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Doctor of Science in Manchester. He then spent two years working for Vickers as a research engineer until he got a professorship in Manchester. In 1946 he became professor of electrical engineering at Imperial College London, was elected in 1953 to the Royal Society and was again until 1961 worked with Vickers, as Director of the Division for Research and Education.

Jackson has held many offices in committees and associations in the course of his life. He was 1958-1960 President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, and then President of the Association of Supervising Electrical Engineers. Until 1962 he was four years chairman of the board of the Royal Technical Institute, Salford (now the University of Salford ). In 1961 he returned to Imperial College, where he led the Department of Electrical Engineering until his death in 1970. In the last three years, he was Vice-Rector of the College. In 1962 he became a member of the Southern Eastern Electricity Board. 1940 Jackson was, where he served for four years in the Radio Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research until 1950. He was from 1945 a member of Advisory Committee of the British Ministry of Education and from 1947 the Department of Energy. The following year, he was also a member of the technical advisory board of the BBC, and in 1951 he was a member of the Selection Committee for the Commonwealth Fund Fellowships.

In his last years, Willis Jackson supported the development of the Indian Institute of Technology.

Honors

1958 Willis Jackson was knighted. In 1967 he became a Life Peer with the title Baron Jackson of Burnley, appointed in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

In addition, Jackson's achievements have been recognized with numerous honorary doctorates, as with the Doctor of Science degree from the ETH Zurich, the University of Bristol and City University London. From the University of Sheffield, he received an honorary doctorate in engineering and from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Leeds in the Jura.

Personal

Willis Jackson was married from 1938; he and his wife had two daughters.

Publications

  • High Frequency Transmission Lines, etc (1945 )
  • Advanced courses in Electrical Engineering ( 1950)
  • The Insulation of Electrical Equipment ( 1954)
  • Partnership Between Science and Electrical Engineering ( 1962)
  • Scientific, Technological and Technical Manpower ( 1963)
  • A Review of the Scope and Problems of Scientific and Technological Manpower Policy (1965 )
  • Macdonald Trends and Developments in Engineering Series General ' (1965 )
  • Technology and the Developing Countries (1966 )
  • Manpower for Engineering and Technology (1970 )
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