George G. Macfarlane

Sir George Gray Macfarlane was a British engineer, scientific administrator and public servant.

George Macfarlane was born in Airdrie, the youngest son of a grocer. Lanarkshire, and attended the Airdrie Academy. He entered the University of Glasgow in 1933, graduating in 1937, then went to the Dresden University of Technology, receiving a doctorate in July 1939, and leaving a month before the outbreak of war.

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