William Hovgaard (born 1857, Aarhus, Denmark d. 1950, Summit, New Jersey) was a Danish, later American professor of naval design and construction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 1933.
Hovgaard was one of the foremost authorities on ship design in his generation, especially on the general and structural design of warships. He wrote several books on naval design and construction and the history thereof, but also on a diversity of other subjects, and he received a significant number of orders, awards and merits during his life.
His brother is Danish Navy officer Andreas Peter Hovgaard, who led an Arctic survey expedition to the Kara Sea on the steamship Dijmphna in 1882/83.[1]
- ^ Hovgaard Ø. In: Anthony K. Higgins: Exploration history and place names of northern East Greenland. (= Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin Vol. 21, 2010). Copenhagen 2010, ISBN 978-87-7871-292-9