Frederick_Edward_Warner
Frederick Warner (engineer)
British chemical engineer
Sir Frederick Edward Warner FRS,[1] FREng (31 March 1910 – 3 July 2010) was a British chemical engineer.
He was knighted in 1968, FRS 1976, Leverhulme Medal 1978, Buchanan Medal 1982. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.[2] Warner also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1978.[3]
In 1986, Warner assembled a group of experts, all aged over 65, to visit the stricken Chernobyl reactor. On returning to Britain he proposed the formation of a permanent task force made up of older scientists who would be on hand to enter contaminated areas after serious nuclear accidents to make initial damage assessments. As a result, Volunteers for Ionising Radiation (VIR) was formed and incorporated into the emergency provisions of the Order of St John.[4]
Warner died on 3 July 2010 at the age of 100.[5]