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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

Hans Wolfgang Liepmann

Title:

Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Affiliation:

California Institute of Technology

Pasadena,California 91125 USA

Gender:

Male

Year Deceased:

2009

Award Discipline:

Engineering

Award Year:

1986

Citation:

"For his invaluable contributions to the physical sciences and engineering and their impact on the national defense and for his important theoretical and experimental advances in the areas of laminar flow, instability and transition, turbulence, shock-wave boundary layer interaction, transonic flow, aerodynamic noise, magnetofluid dynamics, and the mechanics of liquid helium."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on March 12, 1986.

 

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