Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley

Willis Jackson, Baron Jackson of Burnley (29 October 1904 – 17 February 1970) was a British technologist and electrical engineer.

Born in Burnley, Jackson was educated at the Burnley Grammar School, read electrical engineering at the University of Manchester, from 1922 to 1925. He was lecturer at the Burnley Municipal College and following at the Bradford Technical College (now the University of Bradford. He graduated as Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford in 1936 and was Professor of Electrotechnics at the University of Manchester from 1936 to 1946.

He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953; also in that year he became Director of Research and Education, at the Metropolitan Vickers, a post he held until 1961.

Jackson was knighted in 1958 and was made a life peer as Baron Jackson of Burnley, of Burnley in the County Palatine of Lancashire on 19 January 1967. Short time after he received honorary degrees as Doctor of Law from the University of Leeds and the University of Dundee.

Works

*"High Frequency Transmission Lines, etc" (1945)
*"Advanced Courses in Electrical Engineering" (1950)
*"The Insulation of Electrical Equipment" (1954)
*"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 editor" (1965)
*"Technology and the developing countries" (1966)

References

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