John Ffowcs Williams, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Ffowcs Williams

British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics

Date of Birth: 25-May-1935

Place of Birth: Wales, United Kingdom

Profession: engineer, physicist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

John "Shôn" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams, (born 25 May 1935) is Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1996–2002).
He may be best known for his contributions to Aeroacoustics, in particular for his work on Concorde.
Together with one of his students, David Hawkings, he introduced the far-field integration method in computational aeroacoustics based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy, known as the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings analogy.