Professor William Henry Wittrick FAA FRS (1922–1986) was a British engineer and academic who spent 20 years in Australia, including 10 years as Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Sydney (1956–1964).
[1][3][5][6][7] During the war Wittrick briefly worked at the Hawker Aircraft Company (1942), then at Cambridge teaching Royal Engineer Officer Cadets (1942–1944), and later as a Scientific Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough (1944–1945).
In June 1945 he married Joyce, and aged 23 he accepted a position as a senior lecturer at the Department of Aeronautics of the University of Sydney (1945–1954).
He was Reader (1954–1956), and appointed Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering (1956–1964).
[5] He retired in 1982 due to ill-health, aged 60, and was appointed Emeritus Professor.