{{Short description|British academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use British English|date=February 2015}} {{Infobox engineer |name = Sir John Horlock | birth_name = John Harold Horlock |honorific_prefix = |honorific_suffix = FRS FREng |image = John_Horlock.jpg |image_size = |caption = |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1928|4|19}} |birth_place = Edmonton, Middlesex |death_date = {{Death date|df=yes|2015|5|22}} |death_place = |spouse = {{marriage |Sheila Stutely |1953}} |parents = Harold and Olive Horlock |children = Alison, Tim, Jane |discipline = Turbomachinery |institutions = University of Liverpool<br>University of Salford<br>Whittle Laboratory |education = University of Cambridge |practice_name = |significant_projects = |significant_design = |significant_awards = }}
'''Sir John Harold Horlock''' FRS<ref name=rsbm>{{cite journal|last1=Denton|first1=J. D.|last2=Gostelow|first2=J. P.|title=Sir John Harold Horlock FREng. (19 April 1928 — 22 May 2015)|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=62|pages=213–232|year=2016|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2016.0009|doi-access=free|s2cid=57929362}}</ref> FREng<ref name="List of Fellows">{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=20 October 2014|archive-date=8 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|url-status=dead}}</ref> (19 April 1928 – 22 May 2015)<ref>[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U20768 HORLOCK, Sir John (Harold)], ''Who's Who 2014'', A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014.</ref><ref name=Birth>{{cite web|title=Birthday's today|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-19.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120419013835/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-19.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 19 April 2012|publisher=The Telegraph|access-date=14 April 2014|date=19 April 2012|quote=Prof Sir John Horlock, Vice–Chancellor, Open University, 1981–90, 84}}</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-john-horlock-engineer-who-led-campaign-to-prevent-closure-of-the-open-university-10303111.html Sir John Horlock: Engineer who led campaign to prevent closure of the Open University], Independent.co.uk. Accessed 23 January 2023.</ref> was a British professor of mechanical engineering, and was vice-chancellor of both the Open University<ref name=open>[https://www.open.ac.uk/library/digital-archive/featured/97 John Horlock], History of the Open University. Accessed 23 January 2023.</ref> and the University of Salford, as well as vice-president of the Royal Society.<ref name=HistoryOU>{{cite web|title=History of the OU – John Horlock|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/historyofou/story/john-horlock|publisher=Open University|access-date=14 April 2014|archive-date=1 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001073016/https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/historyofou/story/john-horlock|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1977, he was elected a fellow<ref name="List of Fellows"/> of the Royal Academy of Engineering<ref name="List of Fellows"/>
== Education and early life == Horlock was raised in North London and attended The Latymer School, Edmonton. He went from there to St John's College, Cambridge where he gained his PhD in 1958.<ref name=HistoryOU />
== Career == {{More citations needed section|date=January 2023}} In spite of a job offer by Rolls-Royce, Horlock accepted the role of professor and head of the mechanical engineering department at University of Liverpool. He returned to Cambridge as professor of engineering in 1967, and in 1973 he founded the department's Whittle Laboratory, also becoming its director.<ref name=AOUG>{{cite web|title=The AOUG Sir John Horlock Award for Science|url=http://www.aoug.org.uk/awards/science.html|publisher=Association of Open University Graduates (AOUG)|access-date=14 April 2014|archive-date=10 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910165827/http://www.aoug.org.uk/awards/science.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 1981, Horlock began working for the Open University. Whilst there he tackled the government over spending cuts, introduced a taught postgraduate masters programme, and expanded the OU. Following his retirement he was treasurer and later vice-president of the Royal Society.<ref name=HistoryOU />
== Research == Horlock's main area of research was turbomachinery, particularly gas turbines, compressors and jet engines.<ref name=HistoryOU />
===Selected books and book chapters=== {{div col|colwidth=35em}} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = An Open Book | publisher = the Memoir Club | location = South Shields, UK | year = 2006 | isbn = 9781841041582 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Axial flow compressors fluid mechanics & thermodynamics | publisher = Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd | location = Oxford, UK | year = 1958 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Axial flow turbines | publisher = Butterworth & Co Publishers Ltd | location = Oxford, UK | year = 1966 | isbn = 9780408122504 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Axial flow compressors, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics | publisher = R.E. Krieger Pub. Co | location = Huntington, N.Y | year = 1973 | isbn = 9780882750965 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Actuator disk theory: discontinuities in thermo fluid dynamics | publisher = McGraw-Hill | location = London New York | year = 1978 | isbn = 9780070303607 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Cogeneration—combined heat and power (CHP): thermodynamics and economics | publisher = Krieger Pub | location = Malabar, Fla | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780894649288 }} * {{cite book | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Combined power plants: including combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) plants | publisher = Krieger Pub | location = Malabar, FL | year = 2002 | isbn = 9781575241975 }} * {{Citation | last = Horlock | first = John H | contribution = Keynote address | editor-last1 = Hah | editor-first1 = Chunhill | title = Turbomachinery fluid dynamics and heat transfer: based on the proceedings of the symposium held at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, June 13–14, 1995: on the occasion of Dr. B. Lakshminarayana's 60th birthday | pages = 1–12 | publisher = M. Dekker | location = New York | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780824798291 }} {{div col end}}
=== Selected journal articles === {{div col|colwidth=35em}}
* {{Cite journal | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Annulus wall boundary layers in axial compressor stages | journal = Journal of Fluids Engineering | volume = 85 | issue = 1 | pages = 55–62 | doi = 10.1115/1.3656537 | date = March 1963 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Horlock | first1 = John H | last2 = Henderson | first2 = Robert E | title = An approximate analysis of the unsteady lift on airfoils in cascade | journal = Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power | volume = 94 | issue = 4 | pages = 233–240 | doi = 10.1115/1.3445678 | date = October 1972 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Horlock | first1 = John H | last2 = Grainger | first2 = CF | title = Linearized solutions for the supersonic flow through turbomachinery blade rows (using actuator disk theory) | journal = Journal of Fluids Engineering | volume = 102 | issue = 3 | pages = 330–337 | doi = 10.1115/1.3240690 | date = September 1980 }} * {{Cite journal | last = Horlock | first = John H | title = Aero-engine derivative gas turbines for power generation: thermodynamic and economic perspectives | journal = Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power | volume = 119 | issue = 1 | pages = 119–123 | doi = 10.1115/1.2815534 | date = January 1997 }} * {{Cite book | last1 = Horlock | first1 = John H | last2 = Cumpsty | first2 = Nicholas A | title = Volume 6: Turbo Expo 2005, Parts A and B| volume = 6 | pages = 1–14 | publisher = American Society of Mechanical Engineers | doi = 10.1115/GT2005-68081 | date = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-7918-4730-5 | chapter = Averaging Non-Uniform Flow for a Purpose }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Horlock | first1 = John H | last2 = Torbidoni | first2 = Leonardo | title = Calculations of cooled turbine efficiency | journal = Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power | volume = 130 | issue = 1 | pages = 011703 | doi = 10.1115/1.2771250 | date = January 2008 }} {{div col end}}
== Honours and awards== Horlock won numerous awards including: [[Image:Harlock Building at Open University Campus in Milton Keynes, spring 2013 (2).JPG|thumb|right|The Horlock Building, named after John Horlock, Open University's Walton Hall Campus, Milton Keynes.]]
* Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1976<ref name=rsbm/> *1980 received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title = Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last = |website = www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date = 2016-04-05|archive-date = 18 April 2016|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status = dead}}</ref> * Elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 *1996 He was given a knighthood in the 1996 New Year Honours, for services to science, engineering and education.<ref name="Knighthood">{{cite web|title=New Year Honours List 1996|url=http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/node/1067|publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (New Zealand)|access-date=14 April 2014|date=January 1996|quote=Note: Text as published in the New Zealand Gazette (Special), Wellington: Friday, 19 January 1996 – Issue No. 4 (pp.121 – 124)|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412212237/http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/node/1067|archive-date=12 April 2017|df=dmy-all}}</ref> *2001 James Alfred Ewing Medal from the Institution of Civil Engineers<ref>{{cite book|title=The International Who's Who 2004|page=753}}</ref>
The Horlock building on the Open University's Walton Hall campus was named in his honour in 1989,<ref name=HistoryOU /> and the Association of Open University Graduates' Sir John Horlock Award for Science was established two years later in 1991.<ref name=AOUG />
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==External links== * [http://www.aoug.org.uk/awards/science.html The AOUG Sir John Horlock Award for Science] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910165827/http://www.aoug.org.uk/awards/science.html |date=10 September 2014 }}, Association of Open University Graduates (AOUG) * [https://whittle.eng.cam.ac.uk Whittle Laboratory], Cambridge University Engineering Department * [http://www.liv.ac.uk/engineering/ School of Engineering], Liverpool University * [http://www.salford.ac.uk/computing-science-engineering/subjects/mechanical-engineering Mechanical Engineering], School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford, Greater Manchester
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