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.'

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