Background
HAWTHORNE, William Rede was born in 22 May Benton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Son of William Hawthorne and Elizabeth Curie Hawthorne.
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William Rede HAWTHORNE
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Education
Westminster School, London, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America.
Career
Deputy Director of Engine Research, Ministry of Supply (United Kingdom) 1945-1946. Association Professor, of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1946-1948. George Westinghouse Professor, of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1948-1951.
Professor, of Applied Thermodynamics University of Cambridge 1951-1980, Head of Engineering Department 1968-1973.
Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge 1951-1968. Master of Churchill College, Cambridge 1968-1983.
Hunsaker Professor, of Aeronautical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1955-1956. Visiting Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1962-1963.
Chairman Home Office Scientific Advisory Council 1967-1976, Advisory Council on Energy Conservation 1974-1979.
Director Cummins Engine Company, Incorporated. 1974-1986, Dracone Developments Limited. 1957-1987; Foreign Association United States National Academy, of Sciences, United States National Academy, of Engineering.
Vice President Royal Society 1969-1970, 1979-1981.
Fellow, Royal Aeronautical Society, A.I.A.A. Fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering 1976.
Membership
Of Corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1969-1973. Electricity Supply Research Council 1953-1983, Commission, on Energy and the Environment 1978-1981. A.S.M.E. 1982.
Connections
Married Barbara Runkle in 1939.
