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Sir Arnold Alexander Hall FRS FRAeS (23 April 1915 – 9 January 2000) was a British aeronautical engineer, scientist and industrialist. ==Life== Hall was born in Liverpool, and attended Alsop High School in Walton, before going to Clare College, Cambridge, where he took the Mechanical Science Tripos, and was awarded a first class honours degree with distinction in aeronautics, heat engines, applied mathematics and theory of structure. He also won a unique trio of awards - the Rex Moir Prize in Engineering, the John Bernard Seely Prize in Aeronautics, and the Ricardo Prize in Thermodynamics. By now, his interest in aeronautics had grown into something more than the academic, so he learnt to fly. In 1938, Hall joined the staff of the Royal Aircraft Establishment where he remained throughout the war. He was concerned first with aerodynamic work and later with the development of gun sights and aircraft armament. In 1945 he was appointed Zaharoff Professor of Aviation in the University of London and Head of the Department of Aeronautics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. He initiated the construction of new laboratories concerned with aerodynamic and structural research at Imperial College and became a member of the Academic Council of the University of London. In 1951, he became Director of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, a post held until 1955. This period in the history of the Establishment is particularly connected with the building up of the new aerodynamic and naval aviation equipment at Bedford, with the extension of the Establishment's connections with Laboratories overseas, and particularly those in Europe, and widening of knowledge on fatigue in aircraft structures arising from the Establishment's work following the accidents to de Havilland Comet aircraft. In 1955, he became Technical Director of the Hawker Siddeley Group. In 1958, he was appointed Managing Director of the newly formed Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited which was an amalgamation of the Bristol Engine Company and Armstrong Siddeley Motors. The merger became effective on 1 April 1959, and his first task was to amalgamate the varied interests and functioning of the two companies, a managerial undertaking of some complexity. In March 1963, he became Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the Hawker Siddeley Group and in July 1967, was elected Chairman and Managing Director. In this capacity, he was Chairman of Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Ltd., Hawker Siddeley Diesels Ltd. (the Holding Company for Blackstone, Lister, Mirrlees National and Petters), Hawker Siddeley Electric Ltd. (the Holding Company for Brush Electrical Engineering, Fuller Electric and Crompton Parkinson), Hawker Siddeley Holdings Ltd. (the Holding Company for Gloster Saro, Thomas Green & Son, Saro Products, Hands Trailers, and Norstel & Templewood Hawksley), and High Duty Alloys Ltd. He remained at Hawker Siddeley until its conversion to British Aerospace in 1977.〔 He was married twice, having three daughters (Caroline, Elizabeth and Veronica) with his first wife, and stepsons and stepdaughters from both marriages.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arnold Alexander Hall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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