Son of Vice Admiral Victor Hilary Danckwerts and Joyce (nee Middleton) Danckwerts. He was educated at Stubbington House School, Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and was awarded the George Cross in 1940 for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he showed in defusing land mines dropped by the Luftwaffe on London. Later in the war he was transferred to Sicily and after being wounded in action there he was posted to the Combined Operations Headquarters in Whitehall, subsequently being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. After the war he studied chemical engineering and obtained a masters degree. He was Professor of Chemical Engineering Science at Imperial College, London in 1956 and Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge in 1959. He retired from the Shell professorship in 1976 and became the Executive Editor of Chemical Engineering Science. He received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium, aged 68 years.
Son of Vice Admiral Victor Hilary Danckwerts and Joyce (nee Middleton) Danckwerts. He was educated at Stubbington House School, Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Sub Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve during World War II and was awarded the George Cross in 1940 for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he showed in defusing land mines dropped by the Luftwaffe on London. Later in the war he was transferred to Sicily and after being wounded in action there he was posted to the Combined Operations Headquarters in Whitehall, subsequently being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire. After the war he studied chemical engineering and obtained a masters degree. He was Professor of Chemical Engineering Science at Imperial College, London in 1956 and Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cambridge in 1959. He retired from the Shell professorship in 1976 and became the Executive Editor of Chemical Engineering Science. He received an Honorary Science Doctorate from the University of Bath. He was cremated at Cambridge Crematorium, aged 68 years.
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