Harold Barlow

Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow was a British electrical engineer.

Biography

Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow was born on 15 November 1899 in Islington, London, the son of Leonard Barlow—an electrical engineer.
Barlow entered University College London, where—apart from the World War II years —he spent most of his career. At UCL, he was taught by Ambrose Fleming, who was Pender Professor. Barlow became Pender Professor in 1950.
Barlow was the doctoral advisor of Charles Kao, who went on to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009.

Awards

In March 1961, Barlow was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His application citation stated that he "has made important contributions to the devising of improved measuring techniques at centimetre wavelengths. In particular has developed methods of measuring centimetre-wave power by radiation pressure and by use of the Hall Effect in semi-conductors; has made detailed studies of the conductor loss in wave guides and has added substantially to knowledge on the characteristics of surface waves. His further application of the Hall Effect to power measurement at low frequencies is likely to prove of considerable electrical engineering value. He has published two books on centimetre-wave measurements and some 35 scientific and technical papers."
In 1971, Barlow received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University.
In 1988, Barlow was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society "in recognition of his distinguished research, particularly on microwaves and waveguides, and of his lasting influence as the founder of an unusually productive research school."