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Peter Victor Danckwerts



Peter Victor Danckwerts GC, MBE, FRS (1916–1984) was Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University from 1959 to 1977 and a Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Peter Danckwerts was educated at Winchester College, Balliol College, Oxford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1]. Serving as a sublieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, he was awarded the George Cross[2] in 1940 for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he showed in defusing land mines dropped by the Luftwaffe on London. Notice of his award appeared in the "London Gazette" of 20 December 1940. He was wounded in action in the liberation of Sicily and appointed an M.B.E. in 1943.

References

  1. ^ Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 3 (1989)
  2. ^ Peter Victor Danckwerts, GC. George Cross database. Retrieved on 2007-11-23.

Sources

  • K. G. Denbigh (1986). "Peter Victor Danckwerts. 14 October 1916-25 October 1984". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 32: 98-114..


 
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