Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, 1903-1918. He was called to the Bar in 1897. Son of Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., M.A., D.Sc., and Mrs. E. Hopkinson of "Ellerslie", Adams Rd., Cambridge; husband of Mariana Hopkinson (nee Siemens) of 10 Adams Rd., Cambridge, whom he married in 1903. After the deaths of his father, a brother, and two sisters, in the following year, in an Alpine accident, he started in business as a consulting engineer. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1910, and was created a C.M.G. in 1917. He was the author of several scientific and technical papers read before the Royal Society, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the I.A.E., and other scientific bodies. He played an important part in preparations for the war, in his studies on gas and internal combustion engines, the science of flame and explosions and in his study of the elastic hysteresis of metals. He was killed in a flying accident near London.
Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, 1903-1918. He was called to the Bar in 1897. Son of Dr. John Hopkinson, F.R.S., M.A., D.Sc., and Mrs. E. Hopkinson of "Ellerslie", Adams Rd., Cambridge; husband of Mariana Hopkinson (nee Siemens) of 10 Adams Rd., Cambridge, whom he married in 1903. After the deaths of his father, a brother, and two sisters, in the following year, in an Alpine accident, he started in business as a consulting engineer. He was a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1910, and was created a C.M.G. in 1917. He was the author of several scientific and technical papers read before the Royal Society, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the I.A.E., and other scientific bodies. He played an important part in preparations for the war, in his studies on gas and internal combustion engines, the science of flame and explosions and in his study of the elastic hysteresis of metals. He was killed in a flying accident near London.
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