{"id":6186,"date":"2015-01-12T16:16:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T15:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2024-10-22T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:47:22","slug":"academic-interviews-prof-robert-spence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/academic-interviews-prof-robert-spence\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic interviews: Robert Spence 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Made available on Imperial&#8217;s YouTube channel is an archive interview between Professor Lord Robert Winston and Emeritus Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/2010\/01\/01\/research-and-innovation-bob-spence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Spence<\/a>. This was the second in a series of Academic interviews with current and past members of Imperial College London. I&#8217;ll say no more about the video as it&#8217;s mostly self explanatory. To see all of Bob&#8217;s videos featured in this discussion simply click on his name in the text above.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Robert Spence, passed away on Friday 20th September 2024, at the age of 91.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FkE0e19kp0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw January 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made available on YouTube is an archive interview between Professor Lord Robert Winston and Emeritus Professor Robert Spence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,80,81],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-6186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-people","category-research","tag-electrical-engineering"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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