[1] Gosling received his ARCS at the Imperial College in London in 1953 under George Paget Thomson,[2] and spent his career both in industry and education.
In 1974, he became Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of Bath,[3] where he remained affiliated for the rest of his career.
In the 1970s, he also became Technical Director of Plessey, a British-based international electronics, defence and telecommunications company.
[4] In 1978, he was elected President of EUREL (Convention of National Societies of Electrical Engineers in Western Europe).
Gosling has written about eleven books and over fifty scientific papers.