A Dundee man whose research led to advances in the field of engineering has died, aged 84.
Professor Frederick Leckie, known as Fred, was born on March 26 1929 to Frederick Leckie, a paper baler with DC Thomson, and Mary Barclay Leckie.
Prof Leckie was the youngest of his generation of a large extended family, many of whom still live in the Dundee area.
He was brought up on Sandeman Place, Dundee, and attended Morgan Academy between 1940 and 1945. He later attended University College Dundee, where he gained first-class honours in engineering, and was the engineering medallist in 1949.
Prof Leckie left Scotland for a job with Mott, Hay & Anderson in London, and did military service from 1951 to 1954 in the RAF where he was OCTU Sword of Honour winner.
A move to the US saw Prof Leckie attain MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1955 and 1958, where he met his wife Elizabeth Wheelwright.
On graduating, he spent a year at the Technische Hochschule in Germany and lectured in mechanical sciences at Cambridge University for 10 years. From 1968 to 1978 he was the professor of engineering at Leicester University.
He then moved back to the US and was a professor of mechanical engineering and head of the department of theoretical and applied mechanics at Illinois University in Urbana-Champaign and then from 1988 to 2005 as chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at California University.
Prof Leckie is survived by his son Gavin and wife Elizabeth, his son Gregor and wife Sylvia, and grandchildren Hamish, Catriona, Mia, Isabel, Angus and Elspeth.
He was predeceased by his wife of 43 years Elizabeth, and son Sean.