Harold Barlow

Harold Everard Monteagle Barlow (15 November 1899 – 20 April 1989) 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 (UCL), where—apart from the World War II years (which he spent at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough)—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.

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."