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Sir William Hawthorne CBE FRS FREng FIMECHE FRAES | |
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| 2nd Master of Churchill College, Cambridge | |
| In office 1968–1983 | |
| Preceded by | Sir John Cockcroft |
| Succeeded by | Sir Hermann Bondi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 May 1913 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK |
| Died | 16 September 2011 (aged 98) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (ScD) |
Sir William Rede Hawthorne CBE, FRS, FREng, FIMECHE, FRAES, (22 May 1913 – 16 September 2011) was a British professor of engineering who worked on the development of the jet engine. Bragg-Hawthorne equation is named after him.
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