William Rees Sears (March 1, 1913 – October 12, 2002) was an American aeronautical engineer and educator who worked at Caltech, Northrop Aircraft, Cornell University (as the J. L. Given Professor of Engineering), and the University of Arizona. He was an editor of the Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences from 1955 to 1963 and the founding Editor of the Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics in 1969. Source: Wikipedia (en)