William Alexander Gambling

William Alexander Gambling FRS, FREng^[1] (born 11 October 1926) is a British electrical engineer.^[2]

Life

From 1950 to 1955, he was lecturer in electric power engineering at the University of Liverpool. He taught at the University of Southampton and was dean of Engineering and Applied Sciences from 1972 to 1975.

He was president of Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers in 1978. In 1979, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering^[3]^[4]

He was BT professor of optical communications from 1980 to 1995 and founder and director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre from 1989 to 1995.

He was Royal Society Kan Tong Po visiting professor at the University of Hong Kong from 1996 to 2001. He was director of Research and Development at Optoelectronics LTK Industries Ltd from 2002 to 2007.^[5]

He was awarded the James Alfred Ewing Medal in 2002.^[6]

Works

Electronics in transition, University of Southampton, 1968
Photons and fibres: the new world of communications, Royal Academy of Engineering, 1992
S. T. Lee, P. S. Chung, William Alexander Gambling, C. S. Lee, Papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Organic Electrolumuniscent Materials and Devices, City University of Hong Kong, 2000

References

External links

http://www.patentbuddy.com/Inventor/Gambling-William-Alexander/3683321

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1983

Fellows	Martin Aitken David Attenborough Patrick Bateson Edward Cocking Sivaramakrishna Chandrasekhar Pierre Deslongchamps William Douglas R. John Ellis Malcolm Ferguson-Smith Alan Fersht William Alexander Gambling Ian Graham Gass Ian Gibbons George Gray Ray Guillery Richard Henderson Peter Higgs Christopher Hooley Anthony James Peter Lawrence John Lawson George Lusztig C David Marsden Donald Metcalf Keith O'Nions Ted Paige Michael Pepper Michael J. D. Powell Philip Randle Ivan Roitt Alan Sargeson Dennis Sciama Ian Sneddon Edwin Southern Brian Spalding Nigel Unwin Ian Ward Felix Weinberg Charles Weissmann John Westcott Dudley Williams

Statute 12	Margaret Thatcher

Foreign	Anatole Abragam G. Evelyn Hutchinson Jean Leray Henry Stommel Frank Westheimer

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 273814993 LCCN: n82000974 SUDOC: 07152634X

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