Prof Frederick Malloch Bruce

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

FPS FIEE (1912-1997) was a Scottish electrical engineer and educationalist. He developed electrode profiles described as Bruce profiles.

Life

He was born in

Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...

on 13 July 1912. He was educated in

. He studied Electrical Engineering at Kings College, Newcastle graduating BSc in 1933. He was then apprenticed to

C. A. Parsons and Company C. A. Parsons and Company was a British engineering firm which was once one of the largest employers on Tyneside. The company became Reyrolle Parsons in 1968, merged with Clarke Chapman to form Northern Engineering Industries in 1977, and became ...

in Tyneside. In the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

he was in the Supply Armaments Research Department, working on small arms and aircraft weaponry. In 1946 he moved to the Nelson High Power Laboratories in

Stafford Stafford () is a market town and the county town of Staffordshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It lies about north of Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent and northwest of Birmingham. The town had a population of 70,145 in t ...

. In 1948 he returned to Scotland as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, under

David Stirling Anderson Sir David Stirling Anderson (25 September 1895 – 18 January 1981) was a 20th-century Scottish engineer and educationalist. Life He was born in Glasgow on 25 September 1895, the son of Alexander Anderson and his wife, Sarah Stirling. In the F ...

. In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity that operates on a wholly independent and non-partisan basis and provides public benefit throughout Scotland. It was established i ...

. His proposers were

Donald Pack Prof Donald Cecil Pack CBE FRSE FEIS FIMA (1920–2016) was a 20th-century British mathematician who worked on supersonic airflows. He was one of the persons responsible for Strathclyde University receiving its university status and was its V ...

George Hibberd George Hibberd (8 February 1845 — 24 August 1911) was an English cricketer. He was a right-arm fast bowler who played for Lancashire. He was born in Sheffield and died in Todwick, near Rotherham. Hibberd made his sole first-class appearanc ...

, Patrick Ritchie, and

Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick (24 May 1903 – 13 May 1981) was a British pioneer of electromagnetism in relation to its effects upon atomic particles. He served as Director of Electrical Engineering for the Royal Canadian Navy and Director of the Ele ...

. He retired in 1972 due to ill-health and died peacefully in his sleep at

Cranleigh Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England. It lies on a minor road east of the A281, which links Guildford with Horsham. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the ma ...

Surrey Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant urban areas which form part of the Greater London Built-up Area. ...

on 23 July 1997.

Family

He was married to Frances.

References

1912 births 1997 deaths People from Aberdeen Scottish electrical engineers Academics of the University of Strathclyde Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-engineer-stub