Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge
Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge (1925–2003) was a British nuclear physicist, engineer and farmer. Personal life and education. Gilbert Ronald Bainbridge was born 28 November 1925 at Felling, Gateshead, County Durham. He attended Jarrow County Secondary School, and matriculated at Durham University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors in physics, at Hatfield College in December 1946. His doctoral research there, on "The Emission of Ionizing Radiation during a Spark Discharge," was supervised by W. A. Prowse, and in 1953 Bainbridge was awarded a PhD In 1978, Bainbridge incorporated Cerrig Y Barcud farm in Anglesey, North Wales . He was also a Justice of the Peace. He died 13 August 2003 at Glan Rhos Nursing Home, Anglesey. Career. In 1945 he began working for the Admiralty in Greenock, and he conducted torpedo research at Faslane. He began lecturing in 1951 at Paisley Technical College in Glasgow, and in 1954 he began as a researcher at MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. He researched light emissions from stars using mass spectrometry, funded by the United States Air Force Strategic Command. He became Assistant Chief Engineer in 1957 in Warrington for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Bainbridge was  involved in the construction, control and development of laboratories and nuclear reactors at Aldermaston (Atomic Weapons Establishment), Berkeley nuclear power station, Calder Hall (see Sellafield), Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment, Harwell (see Atomic Energy Research Establishment), Hinkley Point A nuclear power station, Oldbury nuclear power station, Tōkai mura, Trawsfynydd, Wylfa nuclear power station, Windscale (see Sellafield). He also served as Health and Safety Executive and Representative to the British Council and Uratom. He was a Parliamentary Advisor and coordinator to the House of Lords Committee on Energy, and an Energy and Environmental consultant. In 1972 he joined the faculty of  University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he was Director of The Energy Centre, and was named Wolfson Professor of Energy Studies. Bainbridge was also a Chartered Engineer as well as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.