Roderick Snell is a British electronics

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 engineer

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, who co-founded Snell & Wilcox

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 in 1973.

Snell is a visiting professor

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 at the Business School of the University of Kingston, Surrey

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, a fellow of the Royal Television Society

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, and a governor of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers

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 (SMPTE).

He received the SMPTE highest award, the Progress Medal, in 2006 for his numerous contributions to television technology, and the British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society

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 has presented him their presidential award in 2000.

Snell, a keen amateur helicopter pilot, co-founded Snelflight in 1998 as designers of indoor model flying machines. Recent models include the worlds first jump jet and the worlds smallest remote controlled flying novelty.

He married Cecilia Gordon Clark (see Cyril Hare

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); they had three children. Cecilia Gordon Clark died in 1999 and he subsequently married Helen Paul. Snell's second son, Arthur Snell, is British High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago.