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Peter John Bell Clarricoats CBE, FREng,[1] FRS[2] (6 April 1932 – 17 January 2020) was a British engineer who was Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.[3]

Early life and education

Clarricoats was educated at Minchenden Grammar School and Imperial College London.[4] He received his PhD from the University of London in 1958, with a thesis entitled "Properties of waveguides containing ferrites with special reference to waveguides of circular cross-section".

Academic career

Clarricoats began his academic career in 1959 as a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, followed by a move in 1961 to the University of Sheffield. He was appointed as a professor at the University of Leeds in 1963, which made him the youngest professor in his field at the time.[4] He was then Professor of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London from 1968 to 1997.

Clarricoats was vice-president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, from 1989 to 1991.[5] He was vice-president and treasurer of URSI (the International Union of Radio Science) from 1993 to 1999.[6]

From 1995 to 1997 he was a director of Filtronic plc,[7] and in 1998 became chair of the Technology Advisory board of Filtronic.[4]

Honours

Clarricoats was appointed a Fellow[1] at the Royal Academy of Engineering[1] in 1983. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1990 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1996.[8]

In September 2015 Clarricoats was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the academy's highest accolades.[9]

Works

  • Microwave Ferrites, Wiley, 1961
  • Corrugated Horns for Microwave Antennas. IET. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86341-003-1.
  • Microwave Horns and Feeds (1994)

References

  1. ^ a b c "List of Fellows - Royal Academy of Engineering".
  2. ^ Snowden, Sir Christopher; Hao, Yang (2021). "Peter John Bell Clarricoats. 6 April 1932—17 January 2020". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71: 103–122. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0045. S2CID 233412236.
  3. ^ "Electronic Engineering Department, Queen Mary, University of London". Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  4. ^ a b c Snowden, Sir Christopher. "Professor Peter Clarricoats CBE FREng FRS" (PDF). Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Prof Peter Clarricoats, CBE, FRS, FREng Authorised Biography – Debrett's People of Today, Prof Peter Clarricoats, CBE, FRS, FREng Profile". Archived from the original on 12 December 2010. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  6. ^ "URSI Home". www.ursi.org.
  7. ^ "Find and update company information - GOV.UK". Companies House. HMRC. Retrieved 13 June 2022.
  8. ^ Royal Society, Peter John Bell Clarricoats 6 April 1932—17 January 2020, Christopher Snowden and Yang Hao, published 28 April 2021
  9. ^ "Microwave pioneer to receive Sir Frank Whittle medal". RAEng. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
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