Martin Lowson

Professor Martin Lowson (5 January 1938 – 14 June 2013) was an aeronautical engineer.

He held a number of senior academic appointments in UK and US universities, was a co-patentee of the BERP helicopter rotor system, and also made a significant contribution to the development of personal rapid transport systems.

Martin Vincent Lowson[1] was born in Totteridge, Hertfordshire, on 5 January 1938.

[3] Lowson gained a PhD in 1963,[2] after which he spent a year in the Institute of Sound & Vibration Research, where he worked on aero-acoustics.

[1] In this year he produced a number of important papers on noise generation which are still regarded as fundamental in the field as of 2013[update].