Alexander Lamb Cullen

Alex Cullen
OBE FREng FRS
Born
Alexander Lamb Cullen

(1920-04-30)30 April 1920
Lincoln, England[1]
Died27 December 2013(2013-12-27) (aged 93)
Alma materImperial College London
AwardsRoyal Medal (1984)
Clifford Paterson Lecture (1984)
Faraday Medal (1984)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity College London
ThesisAbsolute power measurement at micro wave frequencies (1951)

Alexander Lamb Cullen, OBE FREng FRS[2] (30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013)[1] was a British electrical engineer and academic who was a professor at University College London.[3]

Career and research

Cullen served as the Head of Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London where he held the Pender Chair, from 1967 to 1980.[4] In 1988 he published his book Modern Radio Science and a biography of Harold Barlow.[5]

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1977[2] and awarded their Royal Medal in 1984 in recognition of his many distinguished contributions to microwave engineering, both theoretical and experimental, and in particular for research on microwave antennae.[6] The same year he was awarded the Faraday Medal of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. He also the same year delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture to the Royal Society on "Microwaves: the art and the science".[2] He was appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1960.[7]

Selected publications

Journal articles
  • Cullen, A. L. (1954). "The excitation of plane surface waves". Proceedings of the IEE - Part IV: Institution Monographs. 101 (7): 225–234. doi:10.1049/pi-4.1954.0028.
  • Cullen, A. L.; Parr, J.C. (1955). "A new perturbation method for measuring microwave fields in free space". Proceedings of the IEE - Part B: Radio and Electronic Engineering. 102 (6): 836–844. doi:10.1049/pi-4.1954.0028.
  • Cullen, A. L. (1958). "A travelling-wave parametric amplifier". Nature. 181 (4605): 332. doi:10.1038/181332a0.
  • Cullen, Alexander Lamb; Yu, P. K. (1971). "The accurate measurement of permittivity by means of an open resonator". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 325 (1563): 493–509. doi:10.1098/rspa.1971.0181.
  • Cullen, Alexander Lamb; Yu, P. K. (1979). "Complex source-point theory of the electromagnetic open resonator". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 366 (1725): 155–171. doi:10.1098/rspa.1979.0045.
  • Cullen, Alexander Lamb; Yu, P. K. (1982). "Measurement of permittivity by means of an open resonator. I. Theoretical". Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 380 (1778): 49–71. doi:10.1098/rspa.1982.0029.

References

  1. ^ a b "Professor Alexander Cullen - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 25 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b c Davies, J. Brian (2018). "Alexander Lamb Cullen OBE. 30 April 1920 – 27 December 2013". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 64: 131–148. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0028. ISSN 0080-4606.
  3. ^ "Professor Alexander Lamb Cullen, microwave engineer and former Dean of the Faculty, dies". University College London - Engineering. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Honorary Fellows". ucl.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008.
  5. ^ Cullen, Alexander Lamb (1990). "Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow. 15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 36: 19–42. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1990.0022. JSTOR 770078. S2CID 62212226.
  6. ^ "Royal Medal". Archived from the original on 30 December 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  7. ^ "Listings" (PDF). london-gazette.co.uk.