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Owen Saunders
Owen Saunders
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W MOORE SUBMITTED BY THE NAE HOME SECRETARY OWEN ALFRED SAUNDERS mathematician, engineer, and dis tinguishecl university administrator, formally professor of mechanical engineering, (lean and acting rector of the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, Lonclon, and vice-chancellor of the University of London, flied on October 10, 1993.
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However, Owen entered Emanuel School, London, and his sister Nancy studied music and became a concert pianist. Many memories of the young Owen as a highly intelligent, somewhat solitary schoolboy survive.
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It was at this time that Saunders undertook his pioneering studies of free convection over a wide range of conditions, in ~ , In all his work there is a strong devotion to fundamentals and a fascination with the principle of similitude and logical design of experiments. A series of papers in the Proceedings of the Royal Society records his work on natural convection in liquids, including mercury; studies of flow and heat transfer in granular beds, and measurements of radiation were the subject of other important papers at this time.
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Pioneering work on heat transfer in supersonic flow proceeded sicle by sicle with flame radiation studies and fundamental work on the cooling of turbine blacles. Saunders continued to be closely associated with government and industrial research.
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Saunders was immensely proud to have been awarded the Max Jakob Memorial Award of the Arnerican Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Chemical Engineers in 1966. By a happy chance a comment by Max Knob has been preserved in the record of the National Academy of Engineering: "There is scarcely a corner
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He moved easily between mathematical analysis and experimental science. He had vision and clarity and applied both to engineering science and university administration.
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