Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College, University of London. In 1962 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. A bachelor's degree in avionics was pioneered in collaboration with Marconi Electronic Systems. In 1966 he became Vice-Principal at the College. His research following up the causes of the tragic Munich air crash of 1958, which resulted in the deaths of most of the Manchester United football team, was of great interest to the media, because in pinpointing the slush on the runway as the key factor, rather than the ice on the wings, the pilot of the aircraft was vindicated and the airport authorities were seen to be at fault in giving the go-ahead for take-off. Dora Young developed a brain tumor in 1968 and died in 1970. The following year daughter Judith married Herman Waldmann. His mother, a widow, then married Alec the widower. He formally retired in 1978 but continued to be very active academically with some collaborations on the research front, with consultancy both in the UK and abroad, guest lectures and the authorship of articles and several books. He was awarded an OBE in 1964, and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. He was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 1976. He is buried in the Jewish Section of Cambridge City Cemetery. Selected publications 1952: Principles of the Control and Stability of Aircraft, Cambridge University Press 1953: Chapter "Boundary layers" in Howarth: Modern developments in fluid dynamics: high speed flow, Clarendon Press 1960: (with W. J. Duncan & A. S. Thom) The Mechanics of Fluids, Edward Arnold 1970: (with M. Zamir) "Experimental investigation of the boundary layer in a streamwise corner", Aeronautical Quarterly 21: 313–39, Royal Aeronautical Society 1971: (with O. O. Mojola) "An experimental investigation of the turbulent boundary layer along a streamwise corner", AGARD CP 93. 1979: (with M. Zamir) "Pressure gradient and leading edge effects on the corner boundary layer", Aeronautical Quarterly 30; 471–84. 1984: The Aerodynamics of Controls, AGARD CP 384 1989: Boundary Layers, Blackwell Science References 1913 births 2005 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society British Jews Jewish scientists British aerospace engineers Engineering educators Members of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Academics of Queen Mary University of London Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring