Raoul Franklin

Raoul Norman Franklin CBE FREng (3 June 1935 – 7 October 2021), was a physicist, working in the field of plasma physics, who was Vice-Chancellor of the City University in London for 20 years.

Life Franklin was educated at Howick District High School and Auckland Grammar School (both in New Zealand). After working as a senior research fellow at the Royal Military College of Science in Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, from 1961 to 1963, he was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, from 1963 to 1978, and a university lecturer in Engineering Science from 1966 to 1978. He was then appointed Vice-Chancellor of City University, London, holding the post from 1978 to 1998; he held the position of professor of Plasma Physics and Technology in addition from 1986 to 1998. He was also elected a Fellow