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Boucher, Robert Francis, 1940 - 2009

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1940 - 2009

Biography

Professor Robert Boucher was Vice Chancellor of the University of Sheffield from 2001 to 2007. He was a mechanical engineer who specialised in fluid mechanics. Boucher achieved a PhD from the University of Nottingham in Mechanical Engineering in 1966 and produced a technique that has been applied to many pieces of scientific equipment. He was also one of the first to employ a superconducting magnet as a research tool. Boucher later became a researcher and lecturer in Belfast and received honorary doctorates from the State University of New York and the University of Sheffield. Boucher was the Vice-Chancellor/Principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) between 1995-2001, before becoming Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield between 2001-2007. Boucher had many roles outside of university life, including holding a Chairmanship of the Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust and promoting UK universities on an international stage. Boucher was a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 1994 and gained a CBE for his services to engineering, research, industry, and education. Source The University of Sheffield 'Firth Hall portraits.'

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Records of the University President and Vice-Chancellor's Office, 1878 - 2010

 Sub-Fonds
Reference code: GB / 3041 / US / VC
Scope and Contents Records of the Vice-Chancellor's Office consist of letterbooks, correspondence files, scrap books and diaries. Correspondence from the former Firth College, and University College, Sheffield, are included in this collection: Firth College correspondence (FC/VC/1) University College, Sheffield correspondence (USC/VC/1) Outgoing correspondence letterbooks (US/VC/1) Subject files A-W (US/VC/2) Vice-Chancellorship papers (US/VC/3)...
Dates: 1878 - 2010