Person Open DS/UK/20054 Ash; Sir; Eric (31 January 1928-22 August 2021); CBE FRS FREng FIET; German-born British electrical engineer and university rector Ash Eric Sir 31 January 1928-22 August 2021 German-born British electrical engineer and university rector Male (cisgender) Eric Albert Ash | Ulrich Albert Asch Berlin, Germany (born)

British German Scientist; Engineer, electronics Educator; Rector White No known disability No known religious affiliation Son of Walter Jacob (Jewish lawyer) and Dorothea Cecily Schwarz. His family emigrated to England in 1938 to escape Nazism. Heterosexual Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS FREng FIET is a British electrical engineer and past Rector of Imperial College and President of IEE, UK. He was educated at the independent University College School, and at 17 won a scholarship to Imperial College London. After graduating in electrical engineering, he continued his studies with doctoral research. His PhD supervisor was Dennis Gabor, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and his thesis was published as Electron Interaction Effects (1952). He worked on microwave tubes as a Fulbright scholar at Stanford University for two years, before returning to England to continue this work at the Standard Telecommunications Laboratory in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ash (2020) International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHdroberts 8/26/2014 RAHAKIRKBRIDE 6/3/2025 e67c913d-1cb8-46fe-97da-136840954e5b