Background
COALES, John was born on September 14, 1907 in Birmingham. Son of John Dennis and Marion Beatrice (Flavell) Coales.
emeritus professor of engineering
COALES, John was born on September 14, 1907 in Birmingham. Son of John Dennis and Marion Beatrice (Flavell) Coales.
Berkhamsted School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Director Elliott Brothers (London) Limited. 1946-1952. Assistant Director of Research, Engineering Department, Cambridge University 1953, lecturer 1956, Reader 1958, Professor 196574, now Emeritus.
Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge 1964-1974, Emeritus since 1974.
Mackay Visiting Professor, University of California, Berkeley 1963. President Institute Federation Automatic Control (The International Federation of Automatic Control) 1963-1966.
Chairman United Kingdom Automation Council 1963-1966. President Institute of Electrical Engineers 1971-1972.
Chairman Council of Engineering Instituts 1975, Chairman Education, Training and Qualifications Committee of Council 1976-1977, Chairman Commonwealth Engineering Education and Training Board 1975-1979.
Deputy Chairman Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture Group Research 1963-1973. Executive Committee of National Physical Laboratory 1958-1963, Governor Body of National Institute of Agricultural Engineering 1970-1975, Training and Education Advisory Committee of Royal Air Force 1976-1979, Court of Cranfield Institute of Technology 1970-1982, British Library Advisory Council 1975-1981. Governor Hatfield College, of Technical, and Hatfield Polytechnic 1952-1971.
Director Delta Materials Research Limited.
1974-1977, Executive Committee, Fellowship of Engineering 1976-1980. Chairman Activities Committee of Fellowship of Engineering 1976-1980.
Honorary Fellow, Hatfield Polytechnic since 1971, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Measurement and Control 1971, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1985.
Research and Development Board of Tube Investments Limited. 1957-1961. Eastern Electricity Board 1967-1973. Serbian Academy, of Sciences 1981.
Married Mary Dorothea Violet Alison in 1936.