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showered with the honours he deserved,
but he was elected to a fellowship of
the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1991,
made MBE in 2004, and inducted into the
Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame in 2021.
He never stopped working, becoming an
Emeritus Professor at retirement age and
continuing to research, advise companies
and re昀椀ne his inventions until the end.
He married Margaret Donaldson, a
professor of Development Psychology at
Edinburgh University, in 1973. She died
in 2020. He is survived by his younger
brother, Edmund.
NIGEL PHILIP SIMPER (R53-60) died on
He began designing, building and 昀氀ying
11 June 2024, aged 81 years. He passed
model aeroplanes, and his ambition
away peacefully, after a short illness, at
was to take an engineering degree at
home with his family. Devoted husband,
Cambridge University. But he failed to
caring father and loving grandfather.
get good enough grades, so became an
A celebration of his life took place on
apprentice at Saunders-Roe, an Isle of
Monday 1 July 2024, at Seven Hills
Wight aero- and marine-engineering
Crematorium, Ipswich.
company, where he was involved in the
Black Knight rocket project. After studying
at night classes, he was 昀椀nally accepted
at Cambridge to study natural sciences,
including metallurgy.
He moved to Edinburgh University in 1967,
aged 29, to become a research fellow,
working on arti昀椀cial intelligence in robots.
Within six years he was also a lecturer and
had begun his work on wave energy. In
1984 he became Professor of Engineering
Design.
Perhaps Salter’s left-leaning politics and
his willingness to take on the London
establishment prevented him from being
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