Complex sentence: Professor Robert Francis Boucher CBE FREng (1940--25 March 2009) (usually known as Bob Boucher) was a British academic, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 2001 to 2007.
Split into simpler sentences: Professor Robert Francis Boucher CBE FREng (usually known as Bob Boucher) is a British academic born in 1940. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 2001 to 2007.