John Baker, Baron Baker

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John Fleetwood Baker, Baron Baker OBE (19 March 1901 – 9 September 1985), was a British scientist and civil engineer.

Baker was a son of J.W. Baker and Emily Westwood. He was educated at Rossall and Clare College, Cambridge and married Fiona Mary MacAlister Walker in 1928.

Baker was scientific adviser to the Design and Development Section of the Ministry of Home Security from 1939 to 1943. In this time he created the Morrison indoor shelter, using his plastic theory of structural analysis. From 1943 to 1968, he was Professor of Mechanical Sciences and Head of Department at Cambridge University Engineering Department. During this time the department more than tripled in size.

In 1963 he became a honorary graduate as Doctor of Science at the University of Edinburgh. He was made a life peer as Baron Baker, of Windrush in the County of East Sussex on 1 February 1977.

[edit] Works

• A distribution method of stress analysis (Reports and memoranda) (1935)
• Enterprise versus Bureaucracy : The Development of Structural Air-Raid Precautions during the 2nd World War (1978)

[edit] References

• The Papers of Baron Baker at JANUS. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
• Profil at the University of Cambridge. Retrieved on 2006-10-19.
• Professor Sir John Fleetwood Baker (1901-1985). 125 Years of Engineering Excellence. Cambridge University Engineering Department. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.