Norman de Bruyne | |
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| Born | Norman Adrian de Bruyne 8 November 1904 |
| Died | 7 March 1997 (aged 92) Duxford |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Aircraft engineer, scientist, industrialist |
| Known for | Pioneer in structural adhesive bonding |
| Spouse | Elma Marsh (b. 1907) |
| Parent(s) | Father: Pieter Adriaan De Bruyne, Dutch, Livestock Trader (Son of Job Kosten de Bruyne and Judith E. Hober), Mother: Maud Mattock, English (daughter of William Mattock, port pilot and Sabina Maria Eyer)[1] |
| Notes | |
de Bruyne also helped develop a bone-conduction hearing device which he himself used after he became deaf. | |
Norman Adrian de Bruyne FRS[2] was born in Punta Arenas Chile on 8 November 1904, and baptised on 19 March 1905 at the Anglican St. James Church, by the Rev. Edwin Aspinall. His father was Dutch and his mother English. He grew up in England, studied science at the University of Cambridge and became a physics researcher. Around 1930, he became interested in aviation. de Bruyne was the first student of the new flying school which Arthur Marshall established in Cambridge in 1931.