Raymond Beurle
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Raymond Louis Beurle (1921 – 21 June 2013,
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) was an English
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. In 1963 he became the first professor of electrical engineering at
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. He gained an honours degree in engineering before engaging in experimental work for the
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. He then went on to work on the application of new techniques to aid blind people, completing his PhD thesis "Electronic Aids for Blind People". He then started working for the
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in Malvern before moving onto
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,
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in 1955. In 1957 he moved on to
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(EEV), where he was manager of the Camera Tube and Image Tube Research Department. While he was living in
Great Baddow Great Baddow is a major village and civil parish in the Chelmsford borough of Essex, England. It is close to the city of Chelmsford and, with a population of over 13,000, He participated in the
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organised by
Heinz von Foerster Heinz von Foerster (; November 13, 1911 – October 2, 2002) was an Austrian-American scientist combining physics and philosophy, and widely attributed as the originator of second-order cybernetics. He was twice a Guggenheim fellow (1956–57 and ...
in 1960, delivering a paper on "Functional Organization in Random Networks".


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beurle, Raymond 1921 births 2013 deaths English electrical engineers English academics English inventors Academics of the University of Nottingham