Frederick Warner (engineer)

Sir Frederick Edward Warner
Born(1910-03-31)31 March 1910
Greenwich, London, England
Died3 July 2010(2010-07-03) (aged 100)
OccupationChemical engineer
AwardsBuchanan Medal (1982)

Sir Frederick Edward Warner FRS,[1] FREng (31 March 1910 – 3 July 2010) was a British chemical engineer.

He was knighted in 1968, FRS 1976, Leverhulme Medal 1978, Buchanan Medal 1982. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[2] Warner also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1978.[3]

In 1986, Warner assembled a group of experts, all aged over 65, to visit the stricken Chernobyl reactor. On returning to Britain he proposed the formation of a permanent task force made up of older scientists who would be on hand to enter contaminated areas after serious nuclear accidents to make initial damage assessments. As a result, Volunteers for Ionising Radiation (VIR) was formed and incorporated into the emergency provisions of the Order of St John.[4]

Warner died on 3 July 2010 at the age of 100.[5]

  1. ^ Garside, John (2021). "Sir Frederick Edward Warner. 31 March 1910—3 July 2010". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 71: 513–528. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2020.0048. S2CID 235440918.
  2. ^ http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/releases/shownews.htm?NewsID=559 Archived 12 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine Notice of Sir Frederick Warner's 100th birthday
  3. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Obituary:Professor Sir Frederick Warner". London: Daily Telegraph. 20 July 2010. Retrieved 23 August 2010.
  5. ^ http://www.tcetoday.com/tcetoday/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=12926[permanent dead link]