Geoffrey Michael Lilley OBE (16 November 1919 – 20 September 2015) was an aeronautical scientist known for his work on jet engine noise reduction.
His father Micholl Morland Dessau was an American inventor and rubber magnate who lost his fortune in the Great Depression and left the family.
[1] At Kodak he was assistant to the Chief Engineer, and in 1938 was involved with the design of the air conditioning system for the new Film Coating and Drying Plant, which was installed and operational in June 1939.
[1] Lilley helped found the College of Aeronautics in Cranfield in 1946 and his work on aircraft research led to him being appointed Professor of Experimental Fluid Mechanics in 1961.
[1] After his retirement in 1983, he continued to accept visiting professorships, and worked for NASA at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering.