Background
Warner, Frederick Edward was born on March 31, 1910 in London. Son of Frederick and Anne Elizabeth (Woolley) Warner.
engineer and university professor
Warner, Frederick Edward was born on March 31, 1910 in London. Son of Frederick and Anne Elizabeth (Woolley) Warner.
2d class honours in Chemistry, University London, 1932. Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University London, 1933. Doctor of Science. (honorary), University Aston, University Bradford, University Cranfield, England, 1985.
Doctor of Science. (honorary), University Heriot-Watt, University Newcastle, Open University, Essex, England, 1985.
He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 1986, Warner assembled a group of experts, all aged over 65, to visit the stricken Chernobyl reactor. On returning to Britain he proposed the formation of a permanent task force made up of older scientists who would be on hand to enter contaminated areas after serious nuclear accidents to make initial damage assessments.
As a result Volunteers for Ionising Radiation (VIR) was formed and incorporated into the emergency provisions of the Order of St John. Warner died on 3 July 2010 at the age of 100. Warner's chemical engineering legacy is remembered through the Sir Frederick Warner prize, a biennial award presented by IChemE (the Institution of Chemical Engineers) to recognise an individual in the early stages of their career that has shown exceptional promise in the field of sustainable chemical process technology, nuclear technology or in making chemical engineering more accessible to a wider scientific community.
Fellow Royal Society, Royal Academy Engineering. Member Royal Society Chemistry (honorary fellow), Institution Civil Engineers, Institution Chemical Engineers, Science Committee on Problems Environmental, otherws.
Married Margaret Anderson McCrea. Children: Robert Anderson, Elizabeth Jean, Peter Anderson, Judith Alexandrea. Married Barbara Ivy Reynolds.