Academic Career
Roger Jennison was appointed to the University of Kent at Canterbury in 1965 and was the first Professor of Physical Electronics at the University. Within a year he established the Electronics Laboratory (later Department of Electronics and now School of Engineering and Digital Arts) at the University. Prior to his appointment at Kent he was Senior Lecturer in Radio Astronomy at Jodrell Bank Observatory and Senior Lecturer in Physics, Manchester University.
His research interests extended to relativity, studying paths of light in rotating systems, and also to studying ball lightning and water divining.
After retirement he was appointed as the Emeritus Professor of Physical Electronics at the University of Kent. He died on 29 December 2006.
The building which he helped design to house the Electronics Laboratory, now the seat of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts, was named after him by the University of Kent in 2009.
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