Word: dynamicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Frank Malina, 69, pioneering American aeronautical engineer whose early work on solid-fuel rockets helped the U.S. land the first man on the moon; of a heart attack; in Paris. Malina and the late aero-dynamicist Theodore von Karman helped found what became the California-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the late 1930s to research high-altitude rockets. During World War II, the two scientists developed solid-fuel rockets to give propeller-driven aircraft faster takeoffs. In 1945, they helped design one of the U.S.'s first high-altitude sounding rockets, the WAC Corporal. Malina left...
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