Laurence Turner (engineer)

Laurence Beddome Turner MIEE (1886-1963), was a British electrical engineer, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Reader in Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Laurence Beddome Turner
Born6 April 1886 (1886-04-06)
Charlton, London
Died28 January 1963 (1963-01-29) (aged 76)
NationalityBritish
Alma materBedford School, King's College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

Biography

Born in Charlton, London on 6 April 1886, Laurence Turner was educated at Bedford School and at King's College, Cambridge as a Foundation Scholar. He worked as an electrical engineer at Siemens Brothers in London, and at Siemens & Halske in Berlin. During the First World War he became a captain at the War Office’s Signals Experimental Establishment (SEE) at Woolwich, London, developing wireless telegraphy for the British Army. In 1919 he was elected as a Fellow and Director of Studies in Engineering at King's College, Cambridge. During the Second World War he became part of the team developing radar at the Admiralty Signals Establishment.[1]

Dr Laurence Turner died on 28 January 1963.

Publications

Dr Turner's publications included Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony: An Outline for Electrical Engineers and Others, 1921,[2] and Wireless: a treatise on the theory and practice of high-frequency electric signalling, 1931.[3]

References
  1. Who's Who
  2. Laurence Beddome Turner, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony: An Outline for Electrical Engineers and Others, Cambridge University Press, 1921
  3. Laurence Beddome Turner, Wireless: a treatise on the theory and practice of high-frequency electric signalling, Cambridge University Press, 1931
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