| Authorised form of name | Hawthorne; Sir; William Rede (1913 - 2011) |
| Dates | 1913 - 2011 |
| Nationality | British |
| Date of birth | 22/05/1913 |
| Date of death | 16/09/2011 |
| Activity | Career:
Master of Churchill College, Cambridge; Emeritus Professor of Applied Thermodynamics in the University of Cambridge;
Honours:
CBE 1959; Kt 1970 |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 17/03/1955 |
| Age at election | 41 |
| RSActivity | Royal Society roles:
Council: 1968-1970, 1979-1981; VP 1969-1970, 1979-1981
Medals and prizes:
Royal Medal 1982 |
| Source | References:
Sir William Hawthorne, 'The Early History of the Aircraft Gas Turbine in Britain' in NR 1991 vol 45 pp 79-108 |
| Code | NA1401 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| PB/1/23 | Correspondence re cataloguing and permanent deposit of Blackett's personal papers | 1972 |
| HWT/23/1/6 | Cuttings from Japanese press, reports on visit by Executive Secretary and Sir William Hawthorne | May - June 1970 |
| HWT/25/10/5 | Correspondence and papers regarding visit of Royal Society delegation to China | April - June 1974 |
| HWT/39/54 | Great Britain-China Committee (later Great Britain-China Centre) | July 1974 |
| PB/1/34/1 | Letters of congratulation on Blackett's Life Peerage | 1969 |
| IM/GA/SGRS/8381 | Hawthorne, Sir William Rede | 1985 |
| IM/GA/R/6523 | Hawthorne, Sir William Rede | nd |
| WF/293 | Grant application from University of Southampton to the Wolfson Foundation | 1967-1988 |
| WF/387 | Grant application from the University of Cambridge to the Wolfson Foundation | 1970-2001 |
| EC/1955/10 | Hawthorne, Sir William Rede: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| WF/345 | Grant application from the University of Cambridge to the Wolfson Foundation | 20 October 1968 |
| RR/73/170 | Referee's report by Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne | 14 August 1950 |
| RR/73/169 | Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to [John Courtney] Graddon | 14 August 1950 |
| RR/77/258 | Referee's report by William Rede Hawthorne, on a paper 'Mathematical theory of the flow of a gas in a porous solid and of the associated temperature distributions' by D R Bland | 30 January 1953 |
| RR/73/168 | Letter from Sidney Barrington Gates, on a paper 'On secondary circulation in fluid flow' by William Rede Hawthorne, to D C Martin, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society | 22 July 1950 |
| MDA/N/1/205 | Correspondence between William Rede Hawthorne and the Royal Society | 1 September 1956-24 September 1959 |