William Alexander Gambling FRS,

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(11 October 1926–9 January 2021) was a British electrical engineer.

Life

From 1950 to 1955, he was lecturer in electric power engineering at the

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. He taught at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

and was dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 1972 to 1975. He was president of Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers in 1978. In 1979, he was elected a

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of the

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He was BT professor of optical communications from 1980 to 1995 and founder and director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre from 1989 to 1995. He was Royal Society Kan Tong Po visiting professor at the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...

from 1996 to 2001. He was director of Research and Development at Optoelectronics LTK Industries Ltd from 2002 to 2007. He was awarded the

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in 2002. He died in Spain on 9 January 2021.

Works

*''Electronics in transition'', University of Southampton, 1968 *''Photons and fibres: the new world of communications'', Royal Academy of Engineering, 1992 *S. T. Lee, P. S. Chung, William Alexander Gambling, C. S. Lee, ''Papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Organic Electrolumuniscent Materials and Devices'', City University of Hong Kong, 2000

References

External links

*http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Gambling-William-Alexander/3683321 {{DEFAULTSORT:Gambling, William Alexander 1926 births 2021 deaths British electrical engineers Fellows of the Royal Society