Alexander Lamb Cullen, (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013) was a British electrical engineer and academic who was a professor at

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Career and research

In 1955, Cullen was appointed as the first Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He then served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at

where he held the

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, from 1967 to 1980. In 1988 he published his book ''Modern Radio Science'' and a biography of

Harold Barlow Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow FRS (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) was a British engineer. He was born in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow, an electrical engineer. He entered University College, London where, apart fro ...

Awards and honours

He was elected a

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(FRS) in 1977 and awarded their

Royal Medal The Royal Medal, also known as The Queen's Medal and The King's Medal (depending on the gender of the monarch at the time of the award), is a silver-gilt medal, of which three are awarded each year by the Royal Society. Two are given for "the mo ...

in 1984 in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to microwave engineering, both theoretical and experimental, and in particular for research on microwave antennae. The same year he was awarded the

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of the

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. He also the same year delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture to the Royal Society on "Microwaves: the art and the science". He was appointed

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(OBE) in 1960.

Selected publications

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cullen, Alexander Lamb Royal Medal winners English electrical engineers Academics of University College London Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society Officers of the Order of the British Empire 2013 deaths 1920 births Microwave engineers