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Christopher Cockerell
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English engineer (1910–1999)
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5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 23,716x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,840x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,266x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,517x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1910-06-04 ) 4 June 1910, Cambridge , England
- Died
- 1 June 1999 (1999-06-01) (aged 88), Hythe , Hampshire , England
- Alma mater
- Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Known for
- Hovercraft
- Spouse
- Margaret Belsham ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1937 ; died 1996 )
- Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society , RDI , Elmer A. Sperry Award , Royal Medal (1966) , Albert Medal (1966)
- Fields
- Mechanical Engineering
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- date of birth
- 1910-06-04
- date of death
- 1999-06-01
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Cockerell in 1976
Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (4 June 1910 – 1 June 1999) was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft.
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1910 births1999 deaths20th-century English engineersAlumni of Peterhouse, CambridgeBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyCommanders of the Order of the British EmpireEnglish inventorsHovercraftHoward N. Potts Medal recipientsKnights BachelorPeople educated at Gresham's SchoolPeople from CambridgeRoyal Medal winners