| Authorised form of name | Coker; Ernest George (1869 - 1946); civil and mechanical engineer |
| Dates | 1869 - 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom |
| Date of birth | 26 April 1869 |
| Place of death | 13 Miller Road, Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Date of death | 09 April 1946 |
| Occupation | Civil and mechanical engineer |
| Research field | Photoelasticity |
| Engineering |
| Materials Science |
| Engineer |
| Mechanical engineering |
| Activity | Education:
Privately educated (1883-1887); Normal School of Science, London; MA (Camb); DSc (Edin)
Career:
Apprentice and later draughtsman in the London and North Western Railway carriage works at Wolverton; assistant examiner in the Patent Office (1892); engineering educationist (1898); moved to Canada and became assistant professor in civil engineering at McGill University, Montreal (1899) and later associate professor; simultaneously principal assistant to Henry Taylor Bovey (FRS 1902), testing materials and experimenting on Canadian water power schemes; returned to England and became professor of mechanical engineering and head of the department of civil engineering at Finsbury Technical College, London, where he built a new engineering laboratory (1905); professor of civil and mechanical engineering at University College, London (1914), later dean of the faculty of engineering and director of the engineering laboratories; retired as Professor Emeritus (1934).
Memberships:
FRSE
Medals/Awards:
Gold medal of the Institution of Naval Architects 1911
Telford medal 1921
Thomas Hawksley medal 1922 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/05/1916 |
| Age at election | 47 |
| Proposer | John Allen Harker |
| Hugh Longbourne Callendar |
| George Johnstone Stoney |
| Raphael Meldola |
| Karl Pearson |
| Thomas Mather |
| William Ernest Dalby |
| Silvanus Phillips Thompson |
| John Perry |
| John Wolfe Barry |
| Richard Tetley Glazebrook |
| Dugald Clerk |
| Henry Selby Hele-Shaw |
| James Alfred Ewing |
| RSActivity | Medals and prizes:
Rumford Medal 1936 |
| Relationships | Parents: George Coker, engine fitter, and Sarah Tompkins.
Spouse: (m. 1899) Alice Mary (d. 1941), daughter of Robert King, an engineer, of Wolverton. |
| PublishedWorks | RCN 24245 |
| OtherInfo | Gained an international reputation in the limited field of photo-elasticity. |
| Royal Society Obituary or Memoir | Click to view (may be contained within a meeting notice, presidential address or list of death notices) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1952-1953 vol 8 pp 389-393, plate, by H T Jessop |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/104534574 |
| Code | NA1155 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| MS/525/5/3/12 | Letter from Ernest George Coker, University of London, University College, to [Dugald] Clerk | 11 April 1916 |
| RR/15/314 | Referee's report by Joseph Larmor, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Ernest George Coker and S B Clement | 2 August 1902 |
| NLB/25/382 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Ernest George Coker, [Fellow of the Royal Society] | 27 October 1902 |
| NLB/25/659 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Ernest George Coker, [Fellow of the Royal Society], and S B Clement | 4 December 1902 |
| NLB/54/101 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 7 February 1917 |
| NLB/45/287 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] G [George] Coker | 2 February 1912 |
| NLB/45/252 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Professor E [Ernest] G [George] Coker | 26 January 1912 |
| NLB/52/594 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor Ernest George Coker; University College, Gower Street, W.C | 26 January 1916 |
| NLB/52/456 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir James Alfred Ewing, FRS | 14 December 1915 |
| RR/18/119 | Referee's report by Augustus Edward Hough Love, on an unnamed paper by Ernest George Coker | 27 December 1911 |
| NLB/56/384 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 28 January 1919 |
| RR/29/66 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Experiments on the duration of impacts, mainly of bars with rounded ends, in elucidation of the elastic theory' by J E P Wagstaff | 19 February 1924 |
| NLB/69/566 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 9 June 1926 |
| RR/37/62 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Elastic constants of fused quartz. Change of young's modulus with temperature' by H D H Drane | 12 September 1928 |
| RR/41/50 | Referee's report by James Alfred Ewing, on a paper 'Cleavage tests of timber' by Ernest George Coker and G P Coleman | May 1930 |
| IM/000914 | Coker, Ernest George | 1922 |
| RR/42/61 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The solution of the torsion problem for circular shafts of varying radius' by Alexander Thom and James Orr | January 1931 |
| RR/25/5 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Vibration and strength of struts and continuous beams under end thrusts' by W L Cowley and H Levy | 30 January 1919 |
| NLB/61/542 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 23 July 1921 |
| RR/52/88 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Finite strain in elastic problems' by B R Seth | 6 August 1934 |
| RR/27/51 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'On the stress-optical effect in transparent solids strained beyond the elastic limit' by Louis Napoleon George Filon and H T Jessop | 27 February 1922 |
| RR/62/18 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Finite strain in elastic problems—II' by W M Shepherd and B R Seth | [April 1936] |
| NLB/65/46 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 17 July 1923 |
| NLB/57/846 | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor EG [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 21 February 1920 |
| NLB/57/739 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Richard [Tetley] Glazebrook, FRS, KCB, Chairman of the Physics Sectional Committee | 30 January 1920 |
| NLB/57/764 | Copy letter from Sir James Hopwood Jeans, FRS, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor EG [Ernest George]Coker, FRS | 2 February 1920 |
| NLB/64/353 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 22 March 1923 |
| NLB/64/577 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 05 May 1923 |
| RR/33/39 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'On steam engines. Part I, II and III' by G M Clark | 11 June 1926 |
| NLB/65/177 | Copy letter from James Hopwood Jeans, Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Dugald Clerk, FRS | 8 September 1923 |
| NLB/65/721 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Professor [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 12 December 1923 |
| NLB/65/703 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to the Director of the National Physical Laboratory | 11 December 1923 |
| RR/28/110 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The behaviour of metals subjected to repeated stresses' by Herbert John Gough and D Hanson | 3 September 1923 |
| NLB/71/599 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 18 July 1928 |
| NLB/71/5 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society;to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 1 December 1927 |
| NLB/73/128 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 15 December 1930 |
| RR/15/315 | Referee's report by Andrew Gray, on a paper 'An experimental determination of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Ernest George Coker and S B Clement | October 1902 |
| NLB/71/210 | Copy letter from Francis Alexander Towle, Assistant Secretary and Librarian of the Royal Society; to Prof. [Ernest George] Coker, FRS | 11 February 1928 |
| EC/1916/09 | Coker, Ernest George: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| RR/15/155 | Referee's report by Hugh Longbourne Callendar, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker | 28 October 1901 |
| RR/51/71 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The motion of a rotor carried by a flexible shaft in flexible bearings' by David Macleish Smith | 1 March 1933 |
| RR/15/154 | Referee's report by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw, on a paper 'A determination by a thermal method of the variation of the critical velocity of water with temperature' by Howard Turner Barnes and Ernest George Coker | 15 October 1901 |
| RR/24/41 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'Curved beams' by James J Guest | 2 February 1918 |
| RR/45/60 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The elastic limit of metals exposed to tri-axial stress' by Gilbert Cook | 27 May 1932 |
| RR/46/91 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The relationship between viscosity, elasticity and plastic strength of soft materials as illustrated by some mechanical properties of flour doughs, I' by Robert Kenworthy Schofield and George William Scott Blair | 25 August 1932 |
| RR/47/103 | Referee's report by Ernest George Coker, on a paper 'The recovery of proportional elasticity in overstrained steel' by S L Smith and J V Howard | 12 May 1932 |
| MC/30/53 | Letter from [James Alfred] Ewing, Admiralty, S.W, to Mr [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society] | 9 December 1915 |
| ACS/1/2/2/419 | Letter from [Alan Archibald Campbell] Swinton, to [Ernest George] Coker, D. Sc., F. R. S. | 17 May 1927 |