Appreciation of past Fellows

Professor Cedric Edward Turner CBE FREng - died on February 13, 2010 aged 83 Tribute from Malcolm S Loveday Cedric Turner will be sadly missed by a very wide scientific community where he was greatly respected. He was at NPL for about a year around 1976, on secondment from Imperial College, and he and I, together with others were involved with the failure investigation on the quarter chiming train on Big Ben. His fatigue-fracture crack propagation analysis modelling was consistent with the number of cycles executed by the quarter chiming train that failed, and it was probably the longest documented time fatigue crack that has ever been analysed. Latterly I met Cedric on several occasions at the Kirkaldy Testing Museum and I think he spent many happy hours in his 'retirement' cataloging the collection of extensometers which I passed to the KTM when I 'officially' retired from NPL. Malcolm S Loveday Secretary, High Temperature Mechanical Testing Committee National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. Tribute from Sabu John I was Prof Turner's research student from 1982 to 1986. It was a privilege to have had him as my supervisor and his passing is very sad as my planned visit to London this year was primarily to meet up with him. Prof Turner was a kind and inspirational man and I am glad I 'inherited' some of his virtues. I think aspects of Prof Turner's virtues are alive with me as I handle my own PG research students. They are the beneficiaries of a wonderful supervisory experience at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. They might wonder where this 'goodness' is sourced from. It's a secret I never let out - They are indirectly benefiting from Prof Turner and Imperial College! Prof Turner was a gracious intellectual giant and I will miss him dearly. Sabu John Professor of Smart Materials & Systems School of Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering RMIT University Australia

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Updated July 2012

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