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John S. Forrest
John S. Forrest
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He had been a foreign associate of the National Academy of Engineering since his election in 1979. His career covered a broad spectrum of creative contributions to the design and performance of high-voltage transmission in Great Britain, development of high-voltage insulation, protection against lightning, enhanced reliability of electricity supply, environmental effects, and leadership in energy research in Great Britain and on the continent of Europe.
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The Central Electricity Research Laboratories, founded in 1940, quickly became the principal research arm of the British electric power system and remains one of the leading electrical research laboratories in the Western world. The demands and problems that World War II imposed on the British electrical system, the shortage of staff and materials, and the energy demands for war production all made those early times at the CERL hectic indeed, particularly for John Forrest, its director.
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He also continued his participation in engineering education at the University of Strathclyde for several years. John Forrest started his technical and managerial career in the early 1930s when our knowledge of lightning, insulation behavior, and design of electric supply was chaotic at best.
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