Background
OATLEY, Charles William was born on February 14, 1904 in Frome, Somerset. Son of William and Ada M. (nee Dorrington) Oatley.
professor of Electrical Engineering
OATLEY, Charles William was born on February 14, 1904 in Frome, Somerset. Son of William and Ada M. (nee Dorrington) Oatley.
Bedford Modem School and Saint John"s College, Cambridge.
Lecturer, University of London 1935-1939. Radar Research and Development Establishment 1939-1945, Acting Support in charge of scientific work 1944-1945. Fellow Trinity College, Cambridge since 1945.
Lecturer, later Reader, Department, of Engineering, Cambridge University 1945-1960, Professor, of Electrical Engineering 1960-1971, Emeritus Professor since 1971.
Director English Electric Valve Company Limited. 1966-1985; Fellow, King"s College, London since 1976.
Honorary Fellow, Royal Microscopical Society 1970. Foreign Association National Academy, of Engineering 1979.
Honorary Doctor of Science (Heriot-Watt) 1974, (Bath) 1977, (Cambridge) 1990.
Achievement.
Council of Royal Society 1970-1972.
Married Dorothy East. West in 1930.