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William Hovgaard (b. 1857, Aarhus, Denmark d. 1950, Summit, New Jersey) was a Danish, later Danish 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. He was the brother of Andreas Peter Hovgaard, who lent his name to Hovgaard Island and Hovgaard Islands. ==Life== According to Hovgaard's National Academy of Sciences biographical memoir,〔http://museum.mit.edu/150/148〕 In 1912 he helped organize the American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York City, and was a Trustee and Vice-President until his death. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Geographical Society, Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (elected in 1929), Institution of Naval Architects (London), American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, United States Naval Institute, American Mathematical Society, American Association of University Professors, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, American Society of Danish Engineers, and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Hovgaard wrote a number of books and scientific articles on a number of subjects. Pertaining to his warship expertise, he wrote ''Structural Design of Warships''〔http://archive.org/details/ost-design-structuraldesign00hovgrich〕 (1915) and ''General Design of Warships and Modern History of Warships'' (1920). Books by Hovgaard on other subjects are, among others, ''The Voyages of the Norsemen to America''〔http://archive.org/details/voyagesofnorseme1914hovg〕 (1914) where he comments on this subject-matter based on his knowledge on ships and navigation, and ''The United World'' (1944). William Francis Gibbs commented on the latter book, in 1962,〔National Academy of Sciences. William Hovgaard 1857—1950 A Biographical Memoir by William Francis Gibbs〕 At his death he had for some years been working on a new theory of cosmology, but it remained unfinished.〔NAOS biographical memory, http://museum.mit.edu/150/148〕 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「William Hovgaard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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