Raoul Franklin

Raoul Norman Franklin CBE FREng[1] (3 June 1935 – 7 October 2021),[2] was a physicist, working in the field of plasma physics, who was Vice-Chancellor of the City University in London for 20 years.[4] After working as a senior research fellow at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, from 1961 to 1963, he was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1978, and a university lecturer in Engineering Science from 1966 to 1978.He was then appointed Vice-Chancellor of City University, London, holding the post from 1978 to 1998; he held the position of professor of Plasma Physics and Technology in addition from 1986 to 1998.His work also resulted in the university winning four Queen's Awards for Enterprise (for technology, in 1982 and 1985, and for export, in 1988 and 1991).[3] He has been described as "one of the world's leading researchers in plasma physics", writing "many papers of international significance".
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