- Peter Lawrenson
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footnotes =Peter Lawrenson is an
electrical engineer who contributed to theswitched reluctance (SR) drive. He was president of TheInstitution of Electrical Engineers from 1992 to 1993.Lawrenson is the recipient of the
Faraday Medal of theInstitution of Electrical Engineers , the ESSO Energy Gold Medal of TheRoyal Society and theJ.A. Ewing Gold Medal of theInstitution of Civil Engineers . He is a Fellow of theRoyal Academy of Engineering and TheRoyal Society inLondon . Lawrenson won theIEEE Edison Medal in 2005 "For outstanding contributions to the field of electrical machines, most notably the development and commercialization of switched reluctance drives".
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