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SIR WILLIAM REDE HAWTHORNE
SIR WILLIAM REDE HAWTHORNE
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His family moved to London soon thereafter, and he was educated at Dragon School in Oxford and at Westminster School, where he rowed and also acted. He won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1931, where he read mathematics before moving to mechanical sciences, receiving double firsts at graduation.
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His doctoral research was in combustion, in particular the influence of turbulence on flame length, showing that the rate at which oxygen mixes with fuel controls the length of the flame. It was this work for his ScD that would enable him to help Sir Frank Whittle later in the development of the first jet engines.
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This latter included his path-breaking research on secondary flow (a type of fluid motion often manifested as a flow swirling about the mainstream primary flow) in turbomachinery and many other fluid machinery applications.
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In this he was undoubtedly aided by his extraordinary ability to write original vector analysis of a particularly complex fluid flow as if he were writing a letter. In 1968 Hawthorne was named Master of Churchill College, a new college at Cambridge University focusing on scientific and engineering studies, created, with substantial support from Commonwealth countries and from the United States, as a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill.
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, honorary fellow of several professional societies including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Royal Aeronautical Society, honorary member of ASME, and fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was the recipient of six honorary degrees.
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For many years he was a subscriber to Astounding Science Fiction magazine, and he would reflect with colleagues on the feasibility of some of the ideas advanced therein. Sir William's colleagues particularly remember him as a generous and enthusiastic teacher who encouraged others to excel, and as an engineer committed to his profession, imbued with a strong sense of duty and the belief that engineering could contribute to solving important problems facing humankind.
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