Roger Clifton Jennison
M K Das Gupta and the mapping of Cassiopeia A with V Latham .
Early lifeJennison was born in magnetron .
Radio astronomyIn the 1950s he developed a new observable for obtaining information about visibility phases in an optical and infrared wavelengths.
Academic careerJennison was appointed to the Manchester University .
His research interests extended to water divining and ball lightning. With the latter, Jennison reported his personal encounter with the phenomenon as an airline passenger during a flight in March 1963, when a glowing ball of light was created inside the aircraft following a lightning strike.[4]
After retirement he was appointed as the emeritus professor of physical electronics at the University of Kent. He died on 29 December 2006.
The building which he helped design to house the Electronics Laboratory, now the seat of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, was named after him by the University of Kent in 2009. Interest in the artsJennison was a co-founder of the Canterbury Society of Art and was involved in the activities of the Canterbury Arts Council. He was also a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Institution of Electrical Engineers and the Royal Society of Arts. Roger Clifton Jennison's interest in the arts may have been stimulated by his father, George Robert Jennison, who was a well-known portrait painter in his home town of Grimsby and whose work is still on display in Grimsby Town Hall. ReferencesExternal links
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