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John Frederick Clarke

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Notable awards
  
FRS (1982)


Name
  
John Clarke

Born
  
John Frederick Clarke May 1, 1927 (
1927-05-01
)

Died
  
June 11, 2013(2013-06-11) (aged 86)

Institutions
  
English Electric Armstrong Siddeley Fleet Air Arm Cranfield University

Alma mater
  
Queen Mary College (BSc, PhD)

John Frederick Clarke FRS (born 1927) was a professor, an aeronautical engineer, and a pilot.

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Biography

After his schooling, he got training from Fleet Air Arm as a Navy Pilot and then from Royal Air force at Lossiemouth. He left Navy and worked few months at Armstrong Siddeley Motors, but his interest were in academics. Subsequently he quit the job and joined Queen Mary College in Aeronautical engineering course in 1949. He married Jean Gentle in 1953. His thesis advisor N.A.V. Piercy died in 1953, then he temporarily advised by L.G. Whitehead and then finally by Alec David Young. He received his PhD at Queen Mary College in 1957. He briefly worked for English Electric company from 1955 to 1957. In 1958 he joined Cranfield University as a lecturer and stayed there till 1991. After his retirement he continued to do research for a decade. His research interests were Shock waves, detonations, gas dynamics, flame theory etc.

Awards and honours

Clarke was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1982. His nomination reads:

References

John Frederick Clarke Wikipedia