John Edwin Midwinter

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John Edwin Midwinter

OBE FRS FREng
Born(1938-03-08)8 March 1938
Newbury, Berkshire, England
Died13 November 2021(2021-11-13) (aged 83)
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materKCL, UK
Known forOptical Communications
AwardsIET Faraday Medal (1997)
IET JJ Thomson Medal (1987)
Clifford Paterson Medal (1983)
FRS (1985)
FREng (1984)
Scientific career
FieldsOptical communications
InstitutionsUniversity College London, UK
IET, UK

John Edwin Midwinter OBE FRS FREng (8 March 1938 – 13 November 2021) was a British electrical engineer and professor, who was President of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET) from 2000 to 2001.

Education[]

He was educated at St Bartholomew's School, King's College London (BSc Physics, 1961) and the University of London (PhD, 1968).[1]

Career[]

From the 1970s, John’s research centred on optical fibre communications, and he led the speedy deployment of optical communications infrastructure in the UK while at British Telecom.[2] He was subsequently the BT Professor of Optoelectronics at University College London from 1984 to 1991 and Pender Professor of Electronic Engineering from 1991 to 2004, and was Vice Provost from 1994-1999. He was subsequently made an Emeritus Professor there.[3] He was also a member of the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology Advisory Board. [4] He was President of IEE (now IET) UK in 2000.[5]

Awards[]

He was made an OBE and elected to Fellow [6] of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1984 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1985. He delivered the Clifford Paterson Lecture[7] of the Royal Society in 1983 and was awarded the IEE JJ Thomson Medal [8] in 1987 and the Faraday Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1997. He was awarded Honorary Doctorates [9] from Nottingham University in 2000, Loughborough University in 2001 & Queens University Belfast in 2004, UK. In 2000 he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture. In 2002, he was awarded the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. [10]

Personal life[]

Midwinter died on 13 November 2021, at the age of 83.[11]

Books[]

  • Zernike, F.; Midwinter, J.E. (2006) [1973]. Applied Nonlinear Optics. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-48-645360-6.

References[]

  1. ^ ‘MIDWINTER, Prof. John Edwin’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
  2. ^ "Biography of John E Midwinter, The Royal Society".
  3. ^ "Lighting the way to a revolution". BBC News. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  4. ^ "President's Inaugural Address, The IET, 2000".
  5. ^ "Past Presidents of IET, UK".
  6. ^ "List of Fellows, Royal Academy of Engineering UK".
  7. ^ "Royal Society Clifford Paterson Medal and Lecture".
  8. ^ "Recipients of IET JJ Thomson Medal, The IET UK".
  9. ^ "Degree Speech - Honorary Doctorate for Professor John E Midwinter".
  10. ^ "Recipients of IEEE Eric Sumner Award".
  11. ^ Professor John Edwin Midwinter death notice
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