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John Samuel Forrest

Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde
.

Early life and education

John Samuel Forrest was born at Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 20 August 1907, one of the three children of Samuel Norris Forrest and his wife Elizabeth. Samuel Norris Forrest was a teacher of mathematics at Hamilton Academy and author of text-books on mathematics, trigonometry and calculus.[2][3][4][5][6] He also lectured in the Department of Mining at Glasgow Technical College (becoming the University of Strathclyde in 1964.)

John Samuel Forrest attended the famous

BSc
in pure science, with a second class honours in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

Career

Following graduation Forrest took up his first appointment, as a physicist with the

National Electricity Grid. His first published paper on the Grid was submitted to the Institution of Electrical Engineers in June 1931, in which month he also attended the Conference Internationale des Grands Reseau Electrique at Paris, with Thomas Allibone
.

Forrest's third Paper, The electrical characteristics of 132 kV line insulators under various weather conditions was submitted to the IEE in March 1935, and a further Paper, written in 1940, was sent in February 1941, winning the Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize. In 1942 Forrest was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, later becoming one of the founder-editors of the publication, Weather, one of his own Papers appearing in the publication's first volume, 1946.

Forrest organized a joint meeting, October 1945, of the IEE and the

D.Sc. by Heriot-Watt University
, Edinburgh.

Post retirement

Retiring in 1973, Forrest visited Czechoslovakia and in 1975, Bulgaria, and was received by the respective academies and delivered lectures. Also in 1975, Forrest was invited by the Accademia dei Lincei, Italy, to attend an international congress on geothermal energy at which he was invited to chair the conference's final session. In 1976, with another Fellow of the Royal Society, Forrest visited the Japan Academy of Science and touring power stations and research facilities, this followed by a visit to the Egyptian Academy. Forrest was one of the Founder Fellows of the

Professor Emeritus
at the University of Strathclyde.

Dr. John Samuel Forrest, Director of the Central Electricity Research Laboratories; Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde; author.[1][8][9][10]

Married (1940–76) Ivy May Olding. One son.

Retired 1973.

Remarried in 1985, the cousin of his first wife.

Died 11 November 1992.

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1994.0031
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  2. ISBN 978-0-7131-3137-6
    ISBN 0-7131-3137-3
  3. ISBN 0713130504
  4. ISBN 0713130512
  5. ISBN 0713130520
  6. ISBN 0713130490
  7. ^ Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association Magazine, February 1950, feature on Hamilton Academy in the article series 'Famous Scottish Schools'
  8. ^ "IET Honorary Fellows - the IET". Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2010. Institution of Engineering and Technology, list of Honorary Fellows. Retrieved 2011-01-16
  9. S2CID 115981346
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  10. ^ One Hundred Years of Public Electricity. Volume 10 of Maurice Lubbock Memorial Lecture. Author John Samuel Forrest. Published by the Maurice Lubbock Memorial Fund, 1975
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