Abstract
DR. WILLIS JACKSON has been appointed to succeed Prof. Robert Beattie, who retires in September from the Edward Stocks Massey chair of electro-technics in the University of Manchester, which he has occupied since 1912. Prof. Beattie has been associated with the University since 1896. Dr. Jackson was educated at Burnley Grammar School and the University of Manchester, where he graduated with first-class honours in 1925, and was the recipient of various prizes and scholarships. He has held the posts of lecturer in electrical engineering at Bradford Technical College and the Manchester College of Technology, and of lecturer in engineering science in the University of Oxford. Since 1936, he has been research engineer to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., and lecturer and tutor at the Board of Education Summer School for Engineering Teachers in Technical Colleges. His research work has been mainly devoted to high-frequency measurements and to the properties of insulating materials, and has appeared in numerous papers published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society 9 the Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the Philosophical Magazine and other journals.
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