Excell
Excell is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * E. O. Excell (1851–1921), American publisher and composer * Peter Excell (1948–2020), British engineer, scientist, and researcher * Sidney Excell (1906–1990), British Army officer during World War II See also * Excel (other) Excel is a spreadsheet program by Microsoft Corporation. Excel may also refer to: Companies * Excel Airways * Excel Communications, a telephone company in Irving, Texas * Excel Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., a film studio based in Mumbai, India * E ...

Peter Excell
Peter Stuart Excell (June 1948 – 13 August 2020) was a British engineer, scientist, researcher and former Deputy Vice-chancellor at Wrexham Glyndŵr University. Early life, education, and career Excell was born in June 1948. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Science (electrical option) in 1970 from the University of Reading. From 1970 to 1971, he was a research student in electronics at the Department of Physics, University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ifẹ, Nigeria, on a Government of the United Kingdom funded scheme called 'Study and Serve'. He later returned to the United Kingdom and he earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bradford in 1980. He worked at University of Bradford from 1971 to 2007, where he was, progressively, an Experimental Officer, Research Fellow, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader (academic rank) and ultimately a full Professor of applied electromagnetics. In 2007, he join ...
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Sidney Excell
Sidney Excell (23 December 1906 – December 1990) was a British Army major during World War II. He is remembered for the 1945 arrest of Nazi ''Reichsführer-SS'' Heinrich Himmler in Bremervörde, Germany. Early life Educated at marine school in Chatham, Excell worked as an apprenticed shoe maker before joining the metropolitan police and then volunteering for the Palestine Police, in which he served in the 1930s. There he met his wife, Lisa, a Russian-Polish immigrant. They then left Palestine and went to England (British police were not allowed to fraternise with Jews or Arabs in Palestine). They were then married in Epping Essex. Arrest of Himmler On 22 May 1945, the British Army were manning a checkpoint at the Bremervorde Bridge in West Germany when three men were brought in for questioning and their documents examined. One, claiming to be "Heinrich Hitzinger", raised suspicion, and Excell arrested all three. British soldier Arthur Britton soon identified "Hitzinger" a ...
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