| Activity | Education;
King Edward VII School Norwich 1898-1907; Trinity College Cambridge 1907-1910, B.Sc Class I; Fellow of Trinity College Cambidge 1912;
Career:
Superintendent of the Aerodynamics Department of the National Physical Laboratory 1920-1925
Fellow and Faculty Lecturer in Mathematics at Trinity College Cambridge 1925
Professor of Engineering Science, Oxford 1929
Rector of Imperial College London 1942-1948
President of International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 1946-1948; President of International Congressof Applied Mechanics 1948-1952, and Treasurer 1952-1956
General Secretary of the British Association1948-1956
Hon. Ll.D by University of St Andrews 1939, Glasgow 1957; Hon. D.Sc. by Universities of Bristol, Brussels in 1949, and Queen's University Belfast in 1952; Hon. D.Eng. by University of Sheffield 1958.
Hon. Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford in 1943, and Imperial College London and Trinity College Cambridge in 1950.
Medals;
Telford Premium 1932 by Institution of Civil Engineers
James Alfred Ewing Medal 1946 by Institution of Civil Engineeers
Clayton Prize 1947 by Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Worcester Reed Warner Medal 1941 by , and Timoshenko Medal in 1959, by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Lectures:
James Forest Lecture 1930 and 1948, Institution of Civil Engineeers
Wright Brothers Lecture, 1941, Institution of Aeronautical Sciences
Hinchley Lecture, 1950, University of Toronto
Trueman Wood Lecture, 1953, RoyalSociety of Arts
Thomas Hawksley Lecture, 1954, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
W J Rankin Memorial Lecture, 1955, University of Glasgow
Honours:
Kt 1948 |