Background
Trefethen, Lloyd MacGregor was born on March 5, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Lord and Harriet (Nichols) Trefethen.
Trefethen, Lloyd MacGregor was born on March 5, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Francis Lord and Harriet (Nichols) Trefethen.
Bachelor of Science, Webb Institute Naval Architecture, 1940. Master of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1942. Doctor of Philosophy, Cambridge University, England, 1950.
Engineer, General Electric Company, Schenectady, 1940, 42-44;
science consultant, Office Naval Research, American Embassy, London, England., 1947-1950;
technical aide to chief scientist, Office Naval Research
executive secretary, Naval Research Advisory Committee, Washington, 1951;
executive secretary, National Science Board, 1951-1954;
technical aide to director, National Science Foundation, Washington, 1951-1954;
assistant professor mechanic engineering, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1954-1958;
professor mechanic engineering, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, since 1958;
department chairman mechanic engineering, Tufts U., Medford, Massachusetts, 1958-1969, 81. Consultant General Electric Company, 1955-1988. National Science Foundation fellow Cambridge U., England, 1956.
Visiting professor U. Sydney, Australia, 1964-1965, 72, 79. Visiting fellow Battelle Seattle Research Center, 1971. Senior visiting scientist Commonwealth Science.and Industrial Research Organisation, Melbourne, Australia, 1972.
Honorary researchassoc. Harvard University, 1978. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1979.
Russell Springer Professor Mech. Engineering, University California, Berkeley, 1986.
Served with United States Navy, 1944-1946. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Married Florence Marion Newman, 1944. Children— Gwyned, Lloyd Nicholas.