# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-ffowcs-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:26:58.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-ffowcs-williams"
name: "John Ffowcs Williams"
slug: "john-ffowcs-williams"
description: "John \"Shôn\" Eirwyn Ffowcs Williams was Emeritus Rank Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (1996–2002). He may be best known for his contributions to aeroacoustics, in particular for his work on Concorde. Together with one of his students, David Hawkings, he introduced the far-field integration method in computational aeroacoustics based on Lighthill's acoustic analogy, known as the Ffowcs Williams–Hawkings analogy."
tagline: "British engineer-scientist, researcher of numerical aeroacoustics (1935-2020)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Emmanuel_College%2C_St_Andrew%27s_Street%2C_Cambridge.jpg/330px-Emmanuel_College%2C_St_Andrew%27s_Street%2C_Cambridge.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1935-05-25"
deathDate: "2020-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.772253213679359
  historical:           5.938985333333334
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Фокс Уильямс, Джон"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump