Honorary Fellow and Faraday Medallist

At a meeting of the IEE Council on the 8th January 1970, Sir Hamish MacLaren was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institution ´for his contributions to naval electrical engineering and for his devoted service to the Institution´. The IEE Council also made the 48th award of the Faraday Medal to Prof. C.W. Oatley ´for his many contributions to the development of microwave techniques and particularly for his outstanding leadership of the team at Cambridge University responsible for the development of the scanning electron microscope´.