| Authorised form of name | Jackson; Willis (1904 - 1970); Baron Jackson of Burnley |
| Dates | 1904 - 1970 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 29/10/1904 |
| Date of death | 17/02/1970 |
| Activity | Honours:
Kt 1958; Baron 1967
|
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 19/03/1953 |
| Age at election | 48 |
| Sources | AssocMaterial:
CSAC 28/5/75
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1971 vol 17 pp 379-398, plate, by D Gabor and J Brown |
| Royal Society code | NA2414 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1953/15 | Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PB/9/1/59 | Correspondence with Willis Jackson (later Baron Jackson of Burnley) | 1966-1967 |
| PB/1/33/5/4 | Order of Merit | 1967 |
| GLB/65/56/6 | Willis Jackson, Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College of Science and Technology to Brown | 17 November 1966 |
| PB/6/2/3/1/2 | 'DSIR 5 year Plan' | 1950s |
| PB/1/33/4/4 | President of the Royal Society | 1965 |
| PB/1/33/3/4 | Companion of Honour | 1965 |
| IM/002389 | Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley | nd |
| RR/48/46 | Referee's report by Alexander Russell, on a paper 'Power loss phenomena in liquid dielectrics' by Willis Jackson | 16 July 1933 |
| RR/56/40 | Referee's report by Alexander Russell, on a paper 'The dielectric loss characteristics of a chlorinated diphenyl' by Willis Jackson | 16 July 1935 |
| RR/69/113 | Referee's report by Willis Jackson, on a paper 'Dielectric properties of dipolar solids' by Herbert Fröhlich | 1945 |
| IM/GA/WRS/6553 | Jackson, Willis, Baron Jackson of Burnley | nd |
| RR/53/127 | Referee's report by Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, on a paper 'The dielectric constants of liquid mixtures of phenol-water, phenol-m-cresol, phenol-aniline, and phenol-p-toluidine' by Owen Rhys Howell and Willis Jackson | [January 1934] |
| RR/53/128 | Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The dielectric constants of liquid mixtures of phenol-water, phenol-m-cresol, phenol-aniline, and phenol-p-toluidine' by Owen Rhys Howell and Willis Jackson | [January 1934] |
| RR/56/39 | Referee's report by Alexander Russell, on a paper 'The mechanism of dielectric loss in paraffin wax solutions at high radio frequencies' by Willis Jackson | [January 1935] |