Prof Frederick Malloch Bruce

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". ...

FPS FIEE (1912-1997) was a Scottish electrical engineer and educationalist. He developed electrode profiles described as Bruce profiles.

Life

He was born in

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on 13 July 1912. He was educated in

. He studied Electrical Engineering at Kings College, Newcastle graduating BSc in 1933. He was then apprenticed to

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in Tyneside. In the

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he was in the Supply Armaments Research Department, working on small arms and aircraft weaponry. In 1946 he moved to the Nelson High Power Laboratories in

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. In 1948 he returned to Scotland as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, under David Stirling Anderson. In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were

Donald Pack Prof Donald Cecil Pack CBE FRSE FEIS FIMA (1920–2016) was a 20th-century British mathematician who worked on supersonic airflows. He was one of the persons responsible for Strathclyde University receiving its university status and was its V ...

, George Hibberd, Patrick Ritchie, and Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick. He retired in 1972 due to ill-health and died peacefully in his sleep at

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on 23 July 1997.

Family

He was married to Frances.

References

1912 births 1997 deaths Engineers from Aberdeen Academics from Aberdeen Scottish electrical engineers Academics of the University of Strathclyde Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh {{Scotland-engineer-stub