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About Arnold Beck
- Arnold Hugh William Beck (7 August 1916 – 11 October 1997) was a British scientist and electrical engineer, a specialist in plasma and microwaves, Professor of Engineering in the University of Cambridge. The younger son of Major Hugh Beck and Diana L.
- Beck, the young Beck was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and University College, London, where he graduated BSc Eng.
- His old college elected him to a Fellowship in 1979.In 1937, after graduation, Beck became a research engineer with Henry Hughes & Sons, remaining with the firm until 1941.
- Then, with the Second World War in progress, he was seconded to the Admiralty Signal Establishment until 1945.
- From 1947 he was an engineer with Standard Telephones and Cables, ultimately as head of the Valve Research Division.
- In 1958 he was appointed a Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Cambridge, where he led a group researching new ways to generate very high frequency radio waves.
- In 1964 he was promoted to Reader and in 1966 to Professor of Engineering, succeeding John Baker, Baron Baker.
- He was also Head of the University's Electrical Division from 1971 to 1981, and when he retired in 1983 he was given the title of Emeritus Professor and was elected a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi, where he had been a Fellow since 1962.In 1947, Beck married Monica, a daughter of S.
- K.
- Ratcliffe, but they had no children.
- In 1959, he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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