Frederick Malloch Bruce Explained

Prof Frederick Malloch Bruce FRSE FPS FIEE (1912-1997) was a Scottish electrical engineer and educationalist. He developed electrode profiles described as Bruce profiles.^{[1] [2]}

Life

He was born in Aberdeen on 13 July 1912. He was educated in Aberdeen.

He studied Electrical Engineering at Kings College, Newcastle graduating BSc in 1933. He was then apprenticed to C. A. Parsons and Company in Tyneside.

In the Second World War he was in the Supply Armaments Research Department, working on small arms and aircraft weaponry.

In 1946 he moved to the Nelson High Power Laboratories in Stafford.^[3] In 1948 he returned to Scotland as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Royal Technical College in Glasgow, under David Stirling Anderson.

In 1962 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Donald Pack, George Hibberd, Patrick Ritchie, and Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick.^[4]

He retired in 1972 due to ill-health and died peacefully in his sleep at Cranleigh in Surrey on 23 July 1997.^[5]

Family

He was married to Frances.

Notes and References

1. Bruce . F.M. . Calibration of uniform-field spark-gaps for high-voltage measurement at power frequencies . Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers - Part II: Power Engineering . Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) . 94 . 38 . 1947 . 2054-0590 . 10.1049/ji-2.1947.0052. 138–149.
2. Trinh . N. . Electrode Design for Testing in Uniform Field Gaps . IEEE Transactions on Power Apparatus and Systems . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) . PAS-99 . 3 . 1980 . 0018-9510 . 10.1109/tpas.1980.319754 . 1235–1242. 45839164 .
3. Web site: Frederick Bruce. HeraldScotland.
4. Book: Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002. July 2006. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. 0-902-198-84-X. 24 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf. dead.
5. Obituary: Frederick Malloch Bruce. https://web.archive.org/web/20180916093320/https://www.rse.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/bruce_frederick.pdf. 16 September 2018. The Royal Society of Edinburgh.