Peter John Bell Clarricoats

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, FRS (6 April 1932 – 17 January 2020) was a British engineer, and was professor of electronic engineering at

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from 1968 to 1997. Clarricoats had begun his academic career in 1959 as a lecturer at

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, followed by a move in 1961 to the

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. He was appointed as a professor at the

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in 1963, which made him the youngest professor in his field at the time. He received his PhD from the University of London in 1958, with a thesis entitled "Properties of waveguides containing ferrites with special reference to waveguides of circular cross-section". He was vice-president of the

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, from 1989 to 1991. He was vice-president and treasurer of URSI (the International Union of Radio Science) from 1993 to 1999. He was appointed a

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at the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1983. From 1995 to 1997 he was a director of Filtronic plc, and in 1998 became chair of the Technology Advisory board of Filtronic. He was educated at

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and

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. In September 2015 Clarricoats was awarded the

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medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering, one of the academy's highest accolades.

Works

*''Microwave Ferrites'', Wiley, 1961 * *'' Microwave Horns and Feeds'' (1994)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarricoats, Peter 1932 births 2020 deaths British electronics engineers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Alumni of Imperial College London People from Southgate, London