Prof Eric Openshaw Taylor

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 Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". ...

PRSSA FIEE (c.1900–1987) was a 20th century British electrical engineer and scientific author. He was an early advocate of the use of nuclear power to create electricity.

Life

He studied Electrical Engineering at the

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graduating BSc. He became Professor of Electrical engineering at

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. In 1944 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were Maurice Say,

James Cameron Smail Dr James Cameron Smail FRSE FRSGS PRSSA CBE LLD (1880-1970) was a Scottish university Principal. Heriot Watt University library is named the Cameron Smail Library in his honour. He wrote extensively on printing and the history of printing. Life ...

, Nicholas Lightfoot and James Sandilands. In 1956 he succeeded Robert Waldron Plenderleith as President of the

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. He died at

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in southern England on 16 October 1987.Yearbook of the RSE 1987

Publications

*''Power Systems Economics'' *''Utilisation of Electric Energy'' *''Performance and Design of A/C Commutator Motors'' *''Watt, Faraday and Parsons'' *''Electromechanical Energy Conversion'' *''Direct Current Machines'' (with

Maurice George Say Prof Maurice George Say FRSE (1902–1992) was a 20th-century British electrical engineer who served as the head of electrical engineering at Heriot-Watt College for 30 years. Friends knew him as Dick Say and in authorship he is M. G. Say. Li ...

) *''Nuclear Reactors for Power Generation'' *''Electric Power Distribution'' *''Nuclear Power Plant''

References

1987 deaths British electrical engineers Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{UK-engineer-stub