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    Hugh Latimer Dryden (July 2, 1898 – December 2, 1965) was an American

    civil servant. He served as NASA
    Deputy Administrator from August 19, 1958, until his death.

    Biography

    Early life and education

    Dryden was born in

    Baltimore, Maryland
    .

    As a student, Dryden excelled in

    high school, at the age of 14, and was the youngest student ever to graduate from that school. He was awarded the Peabody Prize for excellence in mathematics. With a scholarship, he was admitted to Johns Hopkins University and graduated with honors after only three years. He earned a M.S. in physics in 1916. His thesis was titled, "Airplanes: An Introduction to the Physical Principles Embodied in their Use."[1]

    Career

    In 1918, Dryden joined the

    Ph.D. In 1919 at the age of 20, he was awarded his degree in physics and mathematics from Johns Hopkins University, the youngest person ever to have received a doctorate from that institution. His thesis was on the "Air Forces on Circular Cylinders".[2]

    In 1920 Dryden was appointed the director of the Aerodynamics Division of the National Bureau of Standards, a newly created section. Collaborating with Dr.

    P-51 Mustang, as well as other aircraft designed during World War II
    .

    By 1934, Dryden was appointed the bureau's Chief of the Mechanics and Sound Division, and in 1939 he became a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA).

    With the start of

    Bat", a radar-homing guided bomb program that was successfully employed in combat in April, 1945 to sink a Japanese destroyer
    .

    Dryden (left) with President Dwight D. Eisenhower and T. Keith Glennan in 1958.

    After the war, Dryden became the Director of Aeronautical Research for the

    rocket plane used for research and testing. He also established programs for V/STOL
    aircraft, and studied the problem of atmospheric reentry.

    He held the position of Director of NACA, NASA's predecessor, from 1947 until October 1958. In addition he served on numerous government advisory committees, including the Scientific Advisory Committee to the President. From 1941 until 1956 he was editor of the Journal of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. After NACA became NASA, he became the deputy director of that organization, serving until his death.

    After

    Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.[5]

    Death and legacy

    He died from cancer on December 2, 1965.

    Michael Gorn, chief historian at NASA

    Methodist
    , who, as a result, had a dislike of self-promotion. He served as a lay minister for his entire adult life. He was married to Mary Libbie Travers, and the couple had four children.

    Apollo Project-scale goal of putting a man on the Moon within 10 years, the goal that Apollo 11 was ultimately to meet. In setting the goal, the president did not credit Dryden's input, according to Wolfe.[6]

    Dryden is also a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.[7]

    Dryden was portrayed by George Bartenieff in the 1998 TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.

    Bibliography

    Dryden published over a hundred papers and articles.

    • "Turbulence and the Boundary Layer", Wright Brothers Lecture, 1938.
    • "The Role of Transition from Laminar to Turbulent Flow in Fluid Mechanics", 1941, proceedings University of Pennsylvania Bicentennial Conference on Fluid Mechanics and Statistical Methods in Engineering.
    • "Recent advances in the mechanics of boundary layer flow", Academic Press Inc., New York, 1948.
    • Dryden, Hugh L., and Abbott, Ira H., "The design of low-turbulence wind tunnels", NACA, Technical Note 1755, Nov 1949.
    • "General Survey of Experimental Aerodynamics", 1956, Dover.
    • "The International Geophysical Year: Man’s most ambitious study of his environment," National Geographic, February 1956, pp. 285–285.
    • "Footprints on the Moon", National Geographic, March 1964, pp. 356–401.

    Awards and honors

    References

    1. OCLC 30460745
      .
    2. OCLC 30460743 – via ProQuest
      .
    3. ISSN 0066-4189
      . Retrieved 23 February 2023.
    4. ^ "The First Dryden-Blagonravov Agreement - 1962". NASA History Series. NASA. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
    5. ^ "SP-4209 The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project". NASA History Series. NASA. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
    6. Op-Ed
      by Tom Wolfe, The New York Times, July 18, 2009 (7/19/09 p. WK11 of NY ed.). Retrieved 7/19/09.
    7. ^ "Founding members of the National Academy of Engineering". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
    8. ^ "Hugh L. Dryden". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
    9. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
    10. ^ "Hugh Latimer Dryden". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 9 February 2023. Retrieved 2023-02-22.
    11. ^ National Science Foundation - The President's National Medal of Science
    12. ^ Locke, Robert (October 6, 1976). "Space Pioneers Enshrined". Las Vegas Optic. Las Vegas, New Mexico. Associated Press. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
    13. ISBN 978-1-57864-397-4
      .
    14. ^ An Act to Redesignate the Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center and the Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range
    • Michael Gorn, "A Powerful Friendship: Theodore von Kármán and Hugh L. Dryden", NASA TM-2003-212031.
    • Michael H. Gorn, "Hugh L. Dryden's Career in Aviation and Space", 1996, Washington, D.C., Monographs in Aerospace History.

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