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PROF. WILLIS JACKSON, who has recently been appointed to succeed Prof. C. L. Fortescue as head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, has occupied the chair of electrotechnics at the University of Manchester since 1938. He graduated there in 1925, and after a period at Bradford Technical College joined the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., and afterwards Prof. Miles Walker's staff at the College of Technology, Manchester. During 1933-36 he worked with Dr. E. B. Moullin in the Engineering Laboratory, Oxford, and then spent a period as personal assistant to Sir Arthur Fleming in the research department of Messrs. Metropolitan-Vickers. He served as a member of council of the Institution of Electrical Engineers during 1939-42, was re-elected in 1945, and is now chairman-elect of its Radio Section. He is also a member of the Radio Research Board (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research). His research work prior to the War, and during it on behalf of the Ministry of Supply, was concerned mainly with the behaviour of dielectric materials, to which subject, as also in the field of very high-frequency measurements for radar purposes, he has made important contributions. He has also published several papers dealing with the education and training of engineers, and his interest in general, as well as technical, education has been recognized by the Ministry of Education in appointing him a member of its Central Advisory Council for England.
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Prof. Willis Jackson. Nature 157, 868 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157868c0
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