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Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker
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from the Wright Brothers to Charles Stark Draper, en cl incluclecl virtually all of the founders en cl leaclers of aeronautics en cl astronautics. Beginning with important technical contributions, he soon turned his attention to creating en cl managing the new institutions neeclecl to clear with the growth of the aeronautics industry.
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The Bleriot flight attracted him to the flecigling fielcl of aeronautics, en c! with his wife, the former Alice Porter Avery, whom he hacl married in 1911, he spent the summer translating for publication the classic treatise Resistance of the Air and Aviation by Gustave Eiffel.
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a rifle as a tourist. He met the young Dutch designer Fokker, who was builcling an experimental monoplane that he later soIcl to the German army.
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This brought him into some tension with Col. Billy Mitchell, who forcefully arguccl that the advent of air power obsoleted warships.
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its expanding programs in supersonic aeroclynamics, aero-elasticity, automatic controls, en cl jet propuIsion. During this time he was very active in national aeronautical affairs, replacing Vannevar Bush as chairman
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It is still in use tociay as a student tunnel. Later he playact a key role with John Markham in the founcling of the Naval Supersonic Laboratory with its large supersonic wincl tunnel, usecl initially for work on the Meteor missile.
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Development Board of the Department of Defense, the Executive Committee of the Guiclecl Missiles Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Presiclent's Scientific Research Board, the Presiclent's Special Board of Inquiry on Air Safety, en cl the Industry Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Com· ~ mission. After his retirement from the MIT faculty in 1952, Hunsaker continual to be very active, serving as chair of the NACA until 1956.
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This visiting professorship is offered to persons distinguished in aerospace, who during their term as Hunsaker professor deliver the Minta Martin Lecture. This component of the professorship was endorsed by Glenn L
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Member: National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Fellow: American Academy of Arts en c! Sciences American Physical Society Honorary Fellow: Imperial College of Science en cl Technology Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences Royal Aeronautical Society Honorary Member: American Society of Mechanical Engineers Institute of Mechanical Engineers Honorary Degrees: ~ 943 D.Sc., Williams College 1946 D.Eng., Northeastern University ~ 955 D.Sc., Adelphi College
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Service Me cial GoIcl Mecial of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1958 U.S. Navy Awarcl for Distinguished Public Service CAREER CHRONOLOGY 1909-26 Officer, advancing to commander, Construction Corps, U.S.
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E., ed. The Guggenheim Medalists, Architects of the Age of Flight, the Guggenheim Medal Board of Award, 1963.
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1st National Aeronautical Safety Conference, New York.
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Royal Society Newton Tercentenary. Cambridge University Press.
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