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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 25,478x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
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- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christopher
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Cambridge
- Place of death
- Sutton Scotney
- Occupation
- engineer
- Educated at
- Gresham's School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- John Scott Award
- Notable work
- hovercraft
- Image
- Christopher Cockerell.jpg
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- member of
- Royal Society
- Commons category
- Christopher Cockerell
- date of birth
- 1910-06-04
- date of death
- 1999-06-01
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Christopher Cockerell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.