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Howard W. Emmons
Pages 76-81

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... He was a leader in compressible flow research, discovering the basic propagating blade stall process responsible for the unsteady destructive performance of turbocompressors at low flow rates. He also discov77
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From page 78...
... These included membership on the Naval Technical Mission to Europe in 1945, commissioned to evaluate German technological advances in World War II, and membership on the Space Science and Technology Panel of the President's Scientific Advisory Council from 1958 to 1970. He was a founding member of the Committee on Fire Research in the National Research Council Division of Engineering, serving as a committee member from 1956 to 1972 and as chairman from 1967 to 1970.
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... This was followed by a worldwide survey of fire safety measurements that demonstrated a nearly random variation in the ranking of materials from one country to the next. The "Home Fire Project," funded by the newly established Research Applied to National Neecls Program at the National Science Foundation, was a collaboration between Harvard and the Basic Research Program (which he also helped found)
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... Medal in 1968 by the Combustion Institute, the Timoshenko Mecial in 1971 by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, three awards including an honorary doctor of science degree in 1963 from the Stevens Institute of Technology, and an honorary doctor of science degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1983. He also won the Man of the Year Award from the Society of Fire Protection Engineers and the Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society in 1982.
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... attraction in later years was the swimming pool and tennis court they built on their land. In addition to improving his home, Professor Emmons took considerable interest in the Sucibury public schools, which the children attended, as well as the local town government.
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