James J. E. Gordon

Education

Gordon graduated in naval architecture at Glasgow University. During World World War II he worked at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE). Here he studied composite materials, wooden aircraft, plastics and new materials of many types.

Career

He designed the rescue dinghies for most bomber aircraft used in the war, and studied the strength and behaviour of reinforcement fibres made of glass, carbon, boron and other materials. After the war he worked at Tube Investments (TI) at the Group Research Laboratory, Hinxton Hall, near Cambridge. From 1962 he was head of a new branch at the Explosives Research and Development Establishment (ERDE), Waltham Abbey dealing with completely new structural materials.

Some of his discoveries are still applied in the construction of fibre-reinforced parts for aircraft and rockets.

Achievements

• Industrial Fellow Commoner at Churchill College, Cambridge. Professor of Materials Technology at the University of Reading. British Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society Griffith Medal of the Materials Science Club.

Works

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  • The Science of Structures and Materials (Scientific American Library)

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  • The Science of Structures and Materials (Scientific American Library) Hardcover March 15, 1988

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  • The Science of Structures and Materials (Scientific American Library) by J. E. Gordon (1988-03-15)