Clifford Copland Paterson
Sir Clifford Copland Paterson (born October 17, 1879 in Stoke Newington , London, † 1948 ) was an English electrical engineer.
His father was a tanner and leather dealer. He attended Mill Hill School and then studied electrical engineering at Finsbury Technical College and Faraday House. In 1901 he was appointed by Richard Glazebrook to the newly founded National Physical Laboratory , where he was responsible for the department for electrical engineering and photometry.
In 1916 he was accepted as an officer in the Order of the British Empire for his work on the Paterson-Walsh height finder . In the same year he was asked by the Osram lamp factory in Hammersmith (London) to set up a research department for them. These were dependent on German technology. However, during the war he did not have the freedom to do so.
Five days later, following the armistice, Hugo Hirst asked him to become the founding director of the General Electric Company research laboratory in Hammersmith. In 1922 they moved to Wembley with 22 employees . 1928/29 he was President of the IES and 1930/31 President of the IEE.
During World War II, they had over a thousand employees working on searchlights, camouflage, radio and radar. 1942 was accepted as a Fellow in the Royal Society . In 1946 he was beaten for his services to the Knight Bachelor .
Works
- A Scientist's War - the War Diary of Sir Clifford Paterson ; ISBN 0-86341-218-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Clifford Copland Paterson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paterson, Clifford Copland |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 17, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stoke Newington , London |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1948 |