THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS This PDF is available at http://nap.edu/5427 SHARE Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 DETAILS 313 pages | 6 x 9 | HARDBACK ISBN 978-0-309-05575-8 | DOI 10.17226/5427 CONTRIBUTORS GET THIS BOOK National Academy of Engineering FIND RELATED TITLES Visit the National Academies Press at NAP.edu and login or register to get: – Access to free PDF downloads of thousands of scientific reports – 10% off the price of print titles – Email or social media notifications of new titles related to your interests – Special offers and discounts Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the National Academies Press. (Request Permission) Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 i Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 ii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 iii Memorial Tributes Volume 8 National Academy of Engineering of the United States of America NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. 1996 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 iv International Standard Book Number 0-309-5575-X International Standard Serial Number 1075-8844 Additional copies of this publication are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Box 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800-624-6242 or 202-334-3313 (in the Washington Metropolitan Area) Copyright 1996 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS v Contents Foreword Jakob Ackeret, 3 By Alexander Flax Prepared with the assistance of Nicholas Rott Philip M. Arnold, 7 By M. M. Johnson Donald J. Atwood, 11 By B. Paul Blasingame Hannskarl Bandel, 17 By Anton Tedesko Edward George Bowen, 21 Written by R. Stevens Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS vi Hezzie Raymond (Ray) Brannon, 27 By Claude R. Hocott Page Scott Buckley, 31 By Sheldon E. Isakoff Marvin Camras, 35 Written by Irwin B. Fieldhouse Submitted by Thomas L. Martin, Jr. Dean R. Chapman, 41 By Robert T. Jones and Hans Mark Walker Lee Cisler, 49 By Harvey A. Wagner Jesse F. Core, 55 By Frank Aplan, J. M. Mutmansky, and R. V. Ramani Andrew F. Corry, 59 By Charles F. Avila W. Edwards Deming, 65 By Myron Tribus Allen F. Donovan, 73 By Alexander Flax and Ivan Getting Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS vii A. E. Dukler, 79 By Dan Luss and Moye Wicks Harold Etherington, 85 By David Okrent Frank J. Feely, Jr., 91 Written by Manuel Peralta Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Jean Howard Felker, 97 By Brockway Mcmillan Marcelian Francis Gautreaux, Jr., 103 Written by Edward Mclaughlin Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary William Henry Gauvin, 109 Written by Terrence W. Hoffman Submitted by the NAE Home Sec- retary T. Keith Glennan, 113 By Gerald F. Tape John M. Googin, 121 By George Jasny Fritz Ingerslev, 127 By Per V. Brüel Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS viii Shiro Kobayashi, 131 By Chang-Lin Tien Robert F. Legget, 135 By Alan G. Davenport Clarence H. Linder, 139 By Walter L. Robb John H. Ludwig, 143 By Earnest F. Gloyna Keith W. Mchenry Jr., 149 By Richard C. Alkire Paul M. Nagdhi, 155 By Ronald P. Nordgren Aziz S. Odeh, 161 Written by Robert F. Heinemann Contributions by Rafi Al- Hussainy, D. Krishna Babu, and Eve S. Sprunt Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Bernard M. Oliver, 167 By David Packard Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS ix Robert H. Park, 175 By Charles Concordia Maynard L. Pennell, 179 By Philip M. Condit Allen M. Peterson, 183 By Von R. Eshleman Fred H. Poettmann, 187 By Lloyd E. Elkins, Sr. Rowland Wells Redington, 195 By Lewis S. Edelheit and Walter L. Robb Ben Rich, 201 By Willis H. Hawkins Robert B. Richards, 207 By Karl P. Cohen Frank E. (Bill) Richart, Jr., 213 Written by Richard D. Woods Submitted by the NAE Home Secre- tary Emilio Rosenblueth, 219 Written by Luis Esteva Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS x Shinroku Saito, 225 by Rustum Roy Owen Saunders, 229 Written by N.P. W. Moore Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Robert L. Smith, 237 By Ross E. Mckinney Julius Adams Stratton, 243 By Edward E. David, Jr. Verner Edward Suomi, 251 Written by Terri Gregory and Donald R. Johnson Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Julian Szekely, 257 By Walter S. Owen Anton Tedesko, 263 By Ivan M. Viest Ernest W. Thiele, 269 Written by James P. Kohn Submitted by the NAE Home Secretary Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS xi Allyn Collins Vine, 275 By Fred Noel Spiess Eric A. Walker, 281 By Charles L. Hosler Albertus D. (Bert) Welliver, 287 By Philip M. Condit Jerome Bert Wiesner, 291 By Paul E. Gray Appendix, 297 Acknowledgment for the Photographs, 299 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 CONTENTS xii Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 FOREWORD xiii Foreword This is the eighth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes issued periodically by the National Academy of Engineering to honor the deceased members and foreign associates of the Academy and to recognize their achievements. It is intended that these volumes will stand as an enduring record of the many contributions of engineers and engineering to the benefit of humankind. In most cases, the authors of the tributes are contemporaries or colleagues who had personal knowledge of the interests and the engineering accomplishments of the deceased members and foreign associates. The National Academy of Engineering is a private organization established in 1964 to share in the responsibility given the National Academy of Sciences under its congressional charter signed by President Lincoln in 1863 to examine and report on questions of science and engineering at the request of the federal government. Individuals are elected to the National Academy of Engineering on the basis of significant contributions to engineering theory and practice and to the literature of engineering or demonstrated unusual accomplishments in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology. SIMON OSTRACH HOME SECRETARY Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 FOREWORD xiv Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 1 Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 JAKOB ACKERET 2 Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 JAKOB ACKERET 3 Jakob Ackeret 1898-1981 By Alexander Flax Prepared with the assistance of Nicholas Rott Jakob Ackeret, whose fundamental, comprehensive, and path breaking contributions to fluid mechanics and the understanding of high-speed and supersonic flows led to significant improvements in the science of flight, died April 1, 1981, in Kusnacht, Switzerland, at age eighty-three after a long illness. Professor Ackeret was born March 17, 1898, in Switzerland. He received his diploma in mechanical engineering in 1920 and his Ph.D. in engineering science in 1930, both from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. He served in 1920 and 1921 as a research assistant of Professor Stodola at ETH. From 1921 to 1927 he was a research associate of Professor Ludwig Prandtl at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He took part in the planning and preparations for the establishment there of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Mechanics Research (today the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Mechanics Research) becoming its first director when it went into full operation in 1925. In 1928 he became chief engineer at Escher Wyss Ltd., Zurich, where he served until 1932, when he became a professor at ETH. There he founded and became director of the Institute for Aerodynamics, which became fully operational in 1934. He made that institute famous as a center for research on high-speed gas dynamics and thermodynamics and served as its director until his retirement from ETH in 1967. However, he maintained continuing, life Copyright National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Memorial Tributes: Volume 8 JAKOB ACKERET 4 long connections with Escher Wyss and contributed to the solution of many design problems and to inventions such as gas turbines and variable-pitch propellers. Professor Ackeret was one of the pioneers in the theoretical and experimental investigation of supersonic flows about airfoils and in channels. He published in 1925 a definitive paper describing the small perturbation theory of supersonic flow of a perfect gas over a thin airfoil. The methods and results he obtained are to this day often identified as ''the Ackeret theory,'' "the Ackeret pressure," and "the Ackeret lift." He was personally responsible for innumerable important