Gordon Higginson
| Gordon Higginson DL, FREng, FICE, FIMechE |
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|---|---|
| Born | 8 November 1929 |
| Died | 5 November 2011 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Leeds Grammar School University of Leeds |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline |
Hydrodynamic Lubrication Tribology Bio-engineering |
| Institutions | Billy Row Working Men’s Club |
| Employer(s) |
Ministry of Supply University of Leeds University of Durham University of Southampton |
| Projects | Higginson Report |
Sir Gordon Robert Higginson, DL, DEng, FREng (8 November 1929 – 5 November 2011) was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton for nine years from 1985 to 1994. He was co-author of the standard text on hydrodynamic lubrication and the Higginson Report on A levels.
Higginson was born in Leeds in 1929. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and the University of Leeds from which he received the degrees of BSc and PhD, both in Mechanical Engineering.
Higginson worked briefly for the Ministry of Supply and was then appointed Lecturer at Leeds in 1956. In 1962 Higginson became an Associate Professor at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham and in 1965 he was appointed to a chair in Civil Engineering in what is now the School of Engineering and Computing Sciences at the University of Durham. His research interest was hydrodynamic lubrication and tribology, later extending to bio-engineering.
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