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.