Stanley Hooker

Stanley Hooker
Sir Stanley Hooker
Born
Stanley George Hooker

30 September 1907 (1907-09-30)
Sheerness, Kent, England
Died24 May 1984 (1984-05-25) (aged 76)
EducationBorden Grammar School, Imperial College, Brasenose College
OccupationEngineer
Spouses
Margaret Bradbury
(m. 1937; div. 1950)
Kate Maria Pope
(m. 1950)
Parent(s)William Henry Hooker
Ellen Mary Russell
Engineering career
InstitutionsRolls-Royce Limited
Bristol Aeroplane Company
ProjectsRolls-Royce Derwent, Rolls-Royce Nene, Bristol Olympus, Bristol Orpheus, Bristol Siddeley Pegasus
Significant advanceAircraft engines[1]
AwardsWilhelm Exner Medal (1982).[2]

Sir Stanley George Hooker, CBE, FRS,[3][4] DPhil, BSc, FRAeS, MIMechE,[5] FAAAS (30 September 1907 – 24 May 1984), was a mathematician and jet engine engineer. He was employed first at Rolls-Royce where he worked on the earliest designs such as the Welland and Derwent, and later at Bristol Aero Engines where he helped bring the troubled Proteus turboprop and the Olympus turbojet to market. He then designed the famous Pegasus vectored thrust turbofan used in the Hawker Siddeley Harrier.

  1. ^ Sir Stanley Hooker (1985). Not Much of an Engineer. The Crowood Press. ISBN 1-85310-285-7.
  2. ^ editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.
  3. ^ Young, Pierre H. J.; Haworth, Leslie; Pearson, H.; Wilde, G. L.; Williams, J. E. F. (1986). "Stanley George Hooker. 30 September 1907 – 23 May 1984". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 32: 277–319. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1986.0009. JSTOR 770114.
  4. ^ "Addenda: Stanley George Hooker. 30 September 1907 – 23 May 1984". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 33: 729. 1987. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1987.0026.
  5. ^ 1962 | 0421 | Flight Archive. Flightglobal.com. Retrieved on 2017-09-24.

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