Hermann Glauert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hermann Glauert

British aerodynamicist

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1892

Place of Birth: Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1934

Profession: engineer, mathematician

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Hermann Glauert

  • Hermann Glauert, FRS (4 October 1892 – 6 August 1934) was a British aerodynamicist and Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until his death in 1934. Glauert was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire; his father Louis Glauert was a cutlery manufacturer.
  • He died in Aldershot, Hampshire. Glauert wrote numerous reports and memoranda dealing with aerofoil and propeller theory.
  • His book, The Elements of Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory was the single most important instrument for spreading airfoil and wing theory around the English speaking world. Glauert independently developed Prandtl-Glauert method from the then-existing aerodynamic theory and published his results in The Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1928.
  • In the 1930s, he was the academic supervisor of aerodynamicist and educationalist Gwen Alston. Glauert died aged 41 in an accident in a small park in Fleet common in Farnborough. The tragic and incalculable accident which resulted in the death of Hermann Glauert concerned us also, though less intimately.
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  • Glauert was a distinguished Edwardian of the early days, leaving the School with a mathematical scholarship to Trinity, Cambridge, in 1910.
  • He became a Fellow of the Royal Society, principal scientific officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and no less than an international authority on aeronautical science (cf Prandtl-Glauert singularity).
  • He was killed by a chance fragment of a tree that was being blown up on Aldershot Common.

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