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Authorised form of nameCook; Stanley Smith (1875 - 1952); engineer
Dates1875 - 1952
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCanterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth25 January 1875
Place of deathNewcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Date of death21 May 1952
OccupationEngineer
Research fieldEngineering
ActivityEducation:
The King's School, Canterbury (1889-1893); Cambridge University. (1896, 7th Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos), (1897, First Class, Engineering Tripos)
Career:
Gained practical training with C. A. Parsons and Company (1898-1900); joined the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company as assistant designer (1903-1948), subsequently appointed technical manager of the firm in 1910 and a director in 1930; retired yet continued to sit on the firm's board (1948-1952).
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/05/1928
Age at election53
ProposerRichard Threlfall
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
Henry Cort Harold Carpenter
William Ernest Dalby
James Alfred Ewing
Dugald Clerk
Charles Algernon Parsons
RelationshipsParents: William Henry Cook and Martha Marsh Smith, of Canterbury.
Siblings: William Arthur Smith.
Spouse: (m. 1903) Emilie Clara.
Children: Rosina Dorothy and Reginald Robert Stanley.
Royal Society Obituary or MemoirClick to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 119-127, plate, by Claude Gibb
CodeNA5577
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1928/04Cook, Stanley Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/37/48Referee's report by William Ernest Dalby, on a paper 'Erosion by water-hammer' by Stanley Smith CookJanuary 1928
RR/54/137Referee's report by Stanley Smith Cook, on a paper 'The formation of emulsions in definable fields of flow' by Geoffrey Ingram TaylorMay 1934
NLB/71/465Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to [Stanley Smith] Cook, Esq., FRS1 June 1928
ACS/1/2/3/423Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to Stanley [Smith] Cook [Esquire], F. R. S. 16 June 1928
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