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Word: prandtl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of Applied Mechanics, it would be a matter of the highest scientific importance to establish at Harvard in the general field of applied mechanics, an opportunity similar to that offered by Prandtl at Gottingen, so inclusive and of such strength that it would attract the better grade students and be the recognized training place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESEARCH EMPHASIZED IN 1935-36 SESSION OF THE ENGINEERING SCHOOL | 1/22/1936 | See Source »

...Daniel Guggenheim gold medal for notable aeronautical achievement: to Dr. Ludwig Prandtl of the University of Göttingen, Germany. He was largely instrumental in the development of the Göttingen series of wing sections, notably in the perfection of the thick wing now successfully used on many transport planes; compiled vast statistical information on aerodynamic experiments, won the Great Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society of England in 1927, the Grashof Medal of the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Awarded | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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