Alexander Russell | |
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| Born | 15 July 1861 |
| Died | 14 January 1943 (aged 81) |
| Citizenship | Scottish |
| Education | Glasgow University Caius College, Cambridge |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Electrical engineering |
| Projects | Alternating current |
| Awards | Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers |
Alexander Russell, FRS (15 July 1861 – 14 January 1943) was a Scottish electrical engineer and educator.[1]
He was born in Ayr, Scotland and educated at Glasgow University (gaining an MA in Mathematics and Physics) and Caius College, Cambridge. He was later (in 1924) awarded a doctorate.
After teaching mathematics at Cheltenham College and the Oxford Military College, he took a post at Faraday House, in Southampton Row, London, which had been newly founded to train electrical engineers. In 1909 he became the Principal, a position he held until 1939. There he pioneered the sandwich course, whereby students had a year or so in the classroom and then experienced work in industry before returning to the classroom. He also wrote a number of articles for the journal Electrician which he later published in book form.
He acted as President or vice-President of a number of societies, including the presidency of the Physical Society in 1922–24 and of the Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1923. In 1924 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his citation acknowledging that he was "Distinguished for his knowledge of alternating current phenomena, inductances and electrostatics."[2]
In 1940 he was awarded the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
He died in 1943 after a long illness. He had married Edith, the daughter of H.B.Ince, MP, and had a son and a daughter.
References
- ↑ Campbell, A. (1943). "Alexander Russell". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. JSTOR. 4 (12): 427–428. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1943.0013. JSTOR 769050.
- ↑ "Fellow details". Royal Society. Retrieved 19 October 2014.