| John Rae
When I retired from full-time work in 2002 (my varied jobs are shown below), I became a Non-Executive Director of NPL for 3 years and for 8 years a Governor of our local school (5 years as Chair) but am now fully retired. I am a Liveryman of the Company of Scientific Instrument Makers and still a Fellow of IOP. I attend some events of both but they are heavily London biased which limits me somewhat.
I am still married to Irene (46 years now) and have lived in the same village, Chilton in Oxfordshire, for 35 years. Irene and I look after our one acre garden which keeps us busy and appropriately active. Our family diaspora means that we do quite a bit of travelling every year, or more often. My mother (now 94) my sister, Ishbel (still a Practice Nurse), live on Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Isles. Ishbel's family, my nieces and nephew, live in Aberdeen and Edinburgh. My brother died about 2 years ago, but my sister-in-law (a Prof of Nursing) still lives in Port Stewart, in Northern Ireland. Irene's sister and family live in Lytham-St Annes.
Our son, Philip, a physicist, has become an American Citizen. He and his wife live in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he works in the National Lab. Our daughter, Helen, and her partner, an artist, live in London where she has a very successful career in advertising. Naturally we see rather more of her than the others.
My other social activities mostly relate to our village or to two groups of ex-colleagues and friends who meet separately from time to time for lunch and discussions, often on scientific issues. I call these groups the “Old Chaps” ( of whom I am the youngest) and the “ Young Chaps” ( of whom I am the oldest). I value such contacts and reunions not because they remind me of my personal history, which I remember pretty well, but because they reassure me that it all really happened.
Positions held:
2000-2002 Chief Executive and Vice-chairman of AWE plc. This company operates the UK 's Atomic Weapons Establishment.
1995-2000 Managing Director of NPL Management Ltd which operates the National Physical Laboratory.
1993-1995 Director of the National Environmental Technology Centre.
1990-1993 Chief Executive AEA Environment & Energy.
1986-1990 Chief Scientist UK Department of Energy.
1976-1985 Leader, Theory of Fluids Group, Theoretical Physics Division, Harwell. Project Manager for NIREX R&D and radioactive waste disposal.
1974-1976 Industrial Fellow, Harwell (Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics).
1967-1974 Lecturer and researcher in physics (mathematical physics, statistical physics, fluid mechanics) at the universities: QMC University of London , University Libre, Brussels, University of Texas , Austin and University of Glasgow.
Memberships: Fellow of the Energy Institute. Fellow of the Institute of Physics. President, NPL Sports Club, 1996-2000. Freeman, City of London ,1997. Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers, 1997.
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