Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley
The Lord Jackson of Burnley | |
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Born | 29 October 1904 |
Died | 17 February 1970 | (aged 65)
Alma mater | University of Manchester University of Oxford |
Awards | Fellow of the Royal Society (1953)[1] |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | UMIST Imperial College London |
Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley FRS (29 October 1904 – 17 February 1970)[1]: 379 was a British technologist and electrical engineer.[2][3][4]
Background and education
Born in Burnley, he was the only son of Herbert Jackson and his wife Annie Hiley.[1]: 379 Jackson was educated at Rosegrove Primary School and the Burnley Grammar School until 1922 and read electrical engineering at the University of Manchester until 1925.[5] He obtained a Bachelor of Science first class, having previously won three different scholarships.[1]: 380 Jackson studied then under Robert Beattie, graduating with a Master of Science in 1926.
Jackson was awarded a number of honorary degrees.
He was made an honorary
In 1961, he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa, and on 21 November 1963 delivered the Tenth Fawley Foundation Lecture.[12]
Vocational career
After his education, Jackson became lecturer in electrical engineering first at the
He graduated as
Jackson was
Political career
In 1944 Jackson was appointed to the Radio Research Board of the
He became a member of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service in 1953.
In September 1961, he was invited to the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and to the Scientific Manpower Committee.[6] Jackson was chosen president of the British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education in 1962[1]: 389 and entered the Advisory Council for Technical Education for Overseas Countries.[6] He received a life peerage with the title Baron Jackson of Burnley, of Burnley, in the County Palatine of Lancaster on 19 January 1967.[25]
Awards and honours
Jackson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953, his nomination reads.
Jackson's work has been devoted, mainly, to correlating the electrical behaviour of dielectric materials with their chemical composition and physical structure through studies of the mechanisms of energy-loss and breakdown under alternating electric stress, and to developing new techniques of measurement for investigation of these properties at cm. And mm. wave-lengths. This work is directly related to his studies of the behaviour of transmission lines and wave-guides, and of their applications in radar and communication systems: here his investigations on polythene and barium titanate ceramics are of outstanding importance.[26]
Personal life
In 1938 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Oliphant Boswall, a lecturer in mechanical engineering; they had two daughters.[1]
One of Jackson's closest friends was the physicist John F. Allen.[1]: 379 In his last years he supported the development of the Indian Institutes of Technology.[1]: 392
References
- ^ S2CID 73834870.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-86094-709-4.
- ^ Hansard 1803โ2005: contributions in Parliament by Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley
- ^ Portraits of Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- ^ a b c "JACKSON, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley (1904โ1970)". AIM25. Retrieved 22 October 2006.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Who's Who (1963), p. 1574
- ^ "Honorary graduates A-Z | City, University of London". City.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates". University of Leeds. Archived from the original on 10 August 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows". Institution of Engineering and Technology. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "Honorary Degrees". University of Dundee. Archived from the original on 11 September 2009. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ "Senior Fellows". Royal College of Art. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2010.
- ^ Papers of Lady Swaythling, Box: MS 310/60 A3096. Southampton, UK: Hartley Library, University of Southampton.
- ^ "Library and Archive catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 4 January 2010.
- ^ "No. 41450". The London Gazette. 18 July 1958. p. 4514.
- JSTOR 41139975.
- ^ 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; ed. (1965)
- ^ Technology and the Developing Countries; (1966)
- ^ Manpower for Engineering and Technology; (1970)
- ^ "No. 44230". The London Gazette. 20 January 1967. p. 719.
- ^ "Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley". London: The Royal Society. Retrieved 28 November 2013.