D. B. Spalding
1954 Bio Note [1]
Dr. Spalding was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and the Queen's College, Oxford where he obtained a first-class hons. degree in engineering science.
From 1944 to 1945 he was with the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., and from 1945 to 1947 was engaged on research and development of liquid-fuel rockets with the Ministry of Supply.
After two years in the Metrology Division at the National Physical Laboratory, he went to Cambridge as an I.C.I. Research Fellow on the combustion of liquid fuels.
Since 1950 Dr. Spalding has been a university demonstrator in Engineering at Cambridge, and is continuing research on heat and mass transfer in combustion processes, and on the stability of combustion in engineering equipment. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1952.