Hermann Glauert, FRS[1] (4 October 1892 – 6 August 1934) was a British aerodynamicist and Principal Scientific Officer of the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough until his death in 1934.
Glauert independently developed Prandtl-Glauert method from the then-existing aerodynamic theory and published his results in The Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1928.
Glauert died aged 41 in an accident in a small park in Fleet common in Farnborough.
[2][page needed] His school said of him "The tragic and incalculable accident which resulted in the death of Hermann Glauert concerned us also, though less intimately.
H. Glauert was a distinguished Edwardian of the early days, leaving the School with a mathematical scholarship to Trinity, Cambridge, in 1910.