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MillimeterRoderick Snell Wins John Tucker Award
Sep 27, 2001 12:00 PM
AMSTERDAM September 26, 2001 - Snell & Wilcox Founder and Chairman Roderick Snell was presented with the prestigious 'John Tucker International Award for Excellence' at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.
The award--IBC's premier honor--was presented to Snell by its namesake, John Tucker. It was given: "…for his lifetime's work in breaking down the barriers due to the different standards for television and helping the world's broadcasting community to communicate with itself."
Snell's career as a pioneer in television, teacher, author, broadcast engineer, inventor and manufacturer spans more than 40 years. With his partner Joe Wilcox, he founded Snell & Wilcox in 1973 with an initial view to provide cost-effective television standards conversion for more impoverished areas of the developing world.
Snell & Wilcox now has more than 500 employees worldwide with international reputation for leading-edge engineering and technologies for the world’s broadcast television, video, satellite, cable, film and image communications industries.
When presenting the award, John Tucker said, "Roderick is part of a breed of men we feared might have disappeared. He is a gentleman and a scholar. Apart from his considerable technical achievements, he has many human ones. In particular, he personally created the kind of environment at his company where excellence can flourish."
Snell is a member of a number of key broadcast industry committees and has been awarded Fellowships of both the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers and of the Royal Television Society. He is also a visiting Professor at Kingston University, Surrey, UK.
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