Joseph Petavel

Sir Joseph Ernest Petavel KBE FRS[1] D.Sc.

(14 August 1873 – 31 March 1936) was a British physicist and the 2nd Director of the National Physical Laboratory.

During his time there he devised the Petavel gauge for the measurement of the pressures within exploding gases.

[dubious – discuss] He was invested Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours for his wartime work as Chairman of Aerodynamics Sub-Committee of the Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.

[3] He died at Bushy House and was buried in the west side of Highgate Cemetery.