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Frank Newby is a British engineer who was born on 26 March, 1926 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England. He is 75 years old.
Newby studied engineering at the University of Leeds and graduated in 1949. He then worked for the British Steel Corporation, where he was involved in the development of the first stainless steel production process. He later joined the British Aluminium Company, where he was responsible for the development of the first aluminium production process.
Newby has been involved in numerous engineering projects, including the development of the first nuclear power station in the UK, the development of the first commercial wind turbine, and the development of the first commercial solar panel. He has also been involved in the development of the first commercial wave power station.
Newby is married and has two children. He is currently retired and lives in Yorkshire. His net worth is estimated to be around $2 million.
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26 March |
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Barnsley, Yorkshire, England |
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(2001-05-10) London, England |
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Newby was actively involved in the Institution of Structural Engineers, where he was the convenor of the History Group, which examined the history of structural engineering. He held this post until 2000.
Newby was awarded the Institution of Structural Engineers Gold Medal in 1985.
Newby went on to work with the Chicago based firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill to design a new factory for Boots in Nottingham, completed in 1968.
From 1962 Newby lectured at the Architectural Association
Newby became a partner of the practice in 1956 and then, following the death of Felix Samuely in 1959, the head of the practice at the age of 32. He had designed the British buildings in the 1958 Brussels Expo '58, and this had helped him establish a reputation for being one of the most creative engineers working at the time. Over the following years he received a number of high-profile appointments. In 1960 he was appointed to design the American Embassy in London with Eero Saarinen, whom he met in the United States, and in 1965 to design a new Aviary for Regent's Park Zoo, with Cedric Price and Lord Snowdon.
He spent 1952 in the United States, funded by a National Security Alliance scholarship, where he worked with exponents of the modern movement such as Charles Greaves and Fred Scriven. Travelling across the United States, he interned in several of the most interesting offices, including Saarinen in Michigan, Bertrand Goldberg in Chicago, and Charles and Ray Eames in California. He rejoined Samuely's practice in 1953.
In 1949 Frank Newby joined the engineering consultancy firm of Felix Samuely in London. With Felix Samuely, he worked on the design of the Skylon for the 1951 Festival of Britain, a structure which became the symbol of the festival.
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price,James Gowan (architect) James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM), and such engineers as Ove Arup and Felix Samuely.
Frank Newby was born in Barnsley on 26 March 1926. He studied "mechanical sciences", now known as engineering, at Trinity College, Cambridge between 1943 and 1947. He undertook National Service from 1947 to 1949.
