[401] This appendix provides information about the chairmen of the NACA, members of the NACA Main Committee, executive officers at NACA headquarters, growth of the Langley staff 1919-1958, Langley researchers during the NACA years, and Langley officers t the end of the NACA years.

One of the founding principles and greatest virtues of the NACA was the idea that the Committee should be composed of individuals of such high character and distinction to insulate it as much as possible from political and economic influence. The Main Committee had only eight chairmen:

George Percival Scriven	Brig. Gen., USA; Chief Signal Officer	1915-1916
William Frederick Durand	Professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University	1916-1918
John Ripley Freeman	Consulting Engineer, Providence, R.I.	1918-1919
Charles Doolittle Walcott	Secretary, Smithsonian Institution	1919-1927
Joseph Sweetman Ames	Professor of Physics and President, Johns Hopkins University	1927-1939
Vannevar Bush	President, Carnegie Institution	1939-1941
Jerome Clarke Hunsaker	Chairman, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, MIT	1941-1956
James Harold Doolittle (Lt. Gen., USAF, Ret.)	Vice President, Shell Oil Company of New York	1956-1958

The average period in office of an NACA chairman was 6 1/2 years. The three longest tenures were those of Walcott (8 years), Ames (12 years), and Hunsaker (15 years). The c airmen's lives spanned from 1850 to the present, from wooden ships to spacecraft. All eight were born before 1900, the youngest (Doolittle) in 1896, seven years prior to the rights' landmark flight at Kitty Hawk. The first five chairmen, in fact, were born before t e end of the Civil War. Four (Durand, Bush, Hunsaker, and Doolittle) lived to see the creation of NASA in 1958. In 1986, Doolittle was still living. The average age of the....

....NACA chairmen at time of appointment was approximately 60, equivalent to the average age of new judges on the U.S. Supreme Court. Walcott chaired the Committee to the age of 77, Ames until 75. Bush was the youngest man to head the body; he was 49 at the time of his appointment.

Half of the group were born and raised in New England, including Durand (a small farm near Beaver Falls, Conn.), Freeman (West Bridgton, Maine), Ames (Manchester, Vt.), and Bush (Everett, Mass.). Only Hunsaker (Creston, Iowa; raised in Detroit and Saginaw, Mich.) and Doolittle (Alameda, Calif.) came from outside the Northeast. All seem to have come from solid middle-class families. Bush was the son of a Protestant minister (he received the name "Vannevar" in honor of the clergyman who married his parents). Hunsaker's father was a newspaper editor and publisher.

After Scriven resigned his chairmanship in 1916, no military man on active duty was chairman. However, Durand and Hunsaker had both graduated with high honors from the U.S. Naval Academy, the latter first in his class. Durand then served for seven years in the navy's new engineering corps, and Hunsaker spent a year at sea before being selected by the Construction Corps to study naval architecture at MIT. Doolittle rose to flag rank in his career as a military aviator. In the 1920s and 1930s he gained extensive experience in research and development in aeronautical research instruments and techniques. His most famous exploit, of course, was leading the bombing raid on Tokyo in 1942.

Some chairmen had experience in industry. Freeman acted as a consulting engineer on water power and mill construction for various large manufacturing corporations in the United States and Canada. In the early 1900s he studied the water supply of Greater New York City and tested gun carriages for the War Department. He resigned within.....

....a year to travel to the Orient, where he consulted with the Chinese government on the improvement of its canal system. Bush worked in 1913 with General Electric. Hunsaker w s employed in the late 1920s with Bell Telephone Laboratories to develop airway wire, [404] radio, and weather services, and with Goodyear-Zeppelin to help build the Akron and Macon and to promote airships as transoceanic transportation. Doolittle worked for Shell Oil Company for many years, first as a manager of its aviation department and then as an executive officer.

Several spent most of their professional lives in teaching and research. Durand's 37 years of teaching began in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University in 1887. Four years later, he moved to Cornell to take charge of its graduate school of marine engineering and naval architecture. He accepted the chair of mechanical engineering at Stanford in 1904, staying in it until the age of mandatory retirement (65) in 1924. Ames taught physics at Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater, from 1890 to 1926, when he became the school's provost; later he became the school's president. Four chairmen of the NACA had strong ties to MIT. In 1914 Hunsaker returned to MIT, his alma mater, as head of the departments of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, expanding those programs to include studies in supersonics, aeroelasticity, vibration, instrumentation, automatic control, and jet propulsion. Bush taught at MIT from 1919 to 1939, advancing from professor of electric power transmission to vice-president and dean of the school of engineering. Bush, Freeman, and Doolittle earned engineering degrees at MIT.

The achievements, titles, and honors awarded this group, too numerous to list here, include some of the highest academic, civilian, and military awards presented in this country.

Sources: Series of biographical profiles entitled "Meet the Committee," appearing in Langley Air Scoop, 1944-1958; Who's Who in Engineering: A Biographical Dictionary of the Engineering Profession, 6th ed., New York, 1945; American Men and Women of Science, 10th ed., New York & London, 1960; McGraw-Hill Modern Scientists and Engineers, 3 vols., New York, 1980; Alex Roland, Model Research, NASA SP-4103, 1985.

Public Law 271, 63d Cong., 1st sess., (see appendix A) set the number of NACA members originally at 12. Public Law 549, 80th Cong., 2d sess., raised the number to 15, and Public Law 908, 70th Cong., 1st sess., raised it to 17.

To ensure the primacy of government interests in the new agency, the enabling act established a ratio of seven government members to five from the private sector. The government majority was preserved in the subsequent increases in Committee size. The purpose of enlarging the NACA from 12 to 15 in 1929 was to make room for at least one representative of the new aeronautics section of the Department of Commerce, which had been created by the Air Commerce Act of 1926. The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 specified that at least two representatives of the Department of Commerce always sit with the Committee, guaranteeing government's predominance by a ratio of 9 to 6. Congress approved the 1948 increase in NACA membership from 15 to 17 in order to add a representative of the new Department of Defense, setting the government-to-private interest ratio at 10 to 7.

[405] From 1915 to the creation of NA A in 1958, a total of 120 men (and no women) served on the NACA:

Most Committee appointments fro government service were ex officio: i.e., the incumbent of a post like head of the air force or secretary of the Smithsonian Institution was automatically appointed to the NACA. Length of service depended on tenure in the [primary] government post, and this varied from agency to agency. Until 1938, appointments from private life were until the incumbent resigned; after 1938, they were for five years, though often renewed. (Roland, Model Research, app. B, . 423.)

Approximately hail of the 12 members 58) were on active military duty; at least another 5 had served as officers in the armed forces. Forty represented the civilian side of the federal government. There were 22 private citizens, 9 of whom were employed by large corporations at the time of their membership.

Though the army and navy each had two seats, the frequent transfer of military members tended to weaken their influence. The average length of NACA service by active military men was approximately t years. The NACA members averaging the longest tenures came from th Weather Bureau (14.5 years), the Smithsonian Institution (11 years), and the Bureau of Standards and the private sector (9 years each). Representatives from other government agencies averaged only three years in office. Like the military services, however, the Department of Commerce was compensated for its high turnover rate by always having two m on the Committee.

The following list of Main Committee members is arranged alphabetically.

Abbot, Dr. Charles G.

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

1928-1945

 

Adams, Joseph P.

Civil Aeronautics Board

1952-1956

 

Alison, John R.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

1947-1949

 

Ames, Dr. Joseph S.

Johns Hopkins University

1915-1939

 

Arnold, Henry H.

General of the Air Force

1938-1948

 

Astin, Dr. Allen V.

Director, Bureau of Standards

1952-1958

 

Bane, Col. Thurman H.

USA

1919-1922

 

Bassett, Preston R.

Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc.

1953-1958

Brett, Lt. Gen. George H.

USAAC

1939-1942

 

Briggs, Dr. Lyman 3.

Director, Bureau of Standards

1933-1945

 

Bristol, Capt. Mark L.

USN, Director, Naval Aeronautics

1915-1916

 

Bronk, Dr. Detlev W.

Rockefeller Foundation for Medical Research

1945-1958

 

Burden, Dr. William A. M.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

1942-1947

 

Burgess, George K.

Director, Bureau of Standards

1923-1932

 

Bush, Dr. Vannevar

President, Carnegie Institution

1938-1948

 

Carmichael, Dr. Leonard

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

1953-1958

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Cassady, Vice Adm. John H

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1950-1952

 

Clark, Col. Virginius

USA

1917-1918

 

Combs, Vice Adm. Thomas

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1952-1953;1955-1956

 

Compton, Dr. Karl T.

Research and Development Board

1948-1949

 

Condon, Dr. Edward U.

Director, Bureau of Standards

1945-1951

 

Connoly, Donald H. (Maj. G en., USA, Ret.)

Administrator of Civil Aeronautics

1940-1942

 

Cook, Rear Adm. Arthur B.

USN, Chief, Burea of Aeronautics

1931-1934; 1936-1939

 

Craigie, Lt. Gen. Lawrence C.

USAF

1951-1954

 

Craven, Capt. Thomas

USN, Director of Naval Aviation

1919-1921

 

Crawford, Dr. Frederick C.

Thompson Products, Inc.

1954-1958

 

Curry, Maj. Gen. John F.

USAAC

1924-1926

 

Damon, Ralph S.

Trans World Airlines, Inc.

1953-1956

 

Davis, Thomas W. S.

Assistant Secret of Commerce

1950-1953

 

Davis, Vice Adm. William V., Jr.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1956-1958

 

Doherty, Robert E.

Carnegie Institute of Technology

1940-1941

 

Doolittle, James H. (Lt. Gen., USAF, et.)

Shell Oil Co.

1948-1958

 

Duncan, Vice Adm. Donald B.

USN, Deputy Chie of Naval Operations (Air)

1947-1948

 

Durand, Dr. William F.

Stanford University

1915-1933;1941-1945

 

Echols, Maj. Gen. Oliver P.

USAF

1942-1945

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Fagg, Dr. Fred D., Jr.

Director, Bureau of Air Commerce

1937-1938

 

Fechet, Maj. Gen. James E.

USA, Chief of Air Service

1928-1931

 

Fitch, Vice Adm. Aubrey W.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1944-1945

 

Foote, Paul D.

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering)

1957-1958

 

Foulois, Maj. Gen. Benjamin D.

USA, Chief, SAAC

1929-1930; 1932-1936

 

Freeman, John R.

Consulting Engineer, Providence, R.I.

1918-1919

 

Furnas, Clifford C.

Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research and Engineering)

1956-1957

 

Gardner, Vice Adm. Matthias B.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1952-1953

 

Gilmore, Brig. Gen. William E.

USA

1926-1929

 

Gregg, Willis R.

Chief, Weather Bureau

1934-1938

 

Guggenheim, Harry F.

Long Island, N.Y.

1929-1938

 

Harrison, Rear Adm. Lloyd

USN, Deputy and Assistant Chief, BuAer

1953-1955

 

Hayford, Dr. John F.

Northwestern University

1915-1923

 

Hazen, Ronald M.

Allison Division, General Motors

1946-1954

 

Hester, Clinton M.

Administrator, Civil Aeronautics Authority

1938-1940

 

Hinckley, Robert H.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

1939-1942

 

Hines, Rear Adm. Wellington T.

USN, Assistant Chief for Procurement, BuAer

1957-1958

 

Hunsaker, Dr. Jerome C.

Massachusett Institute of Technology

1922-1923; 1938-1958

 

Kenly, Maj. Gen. William L.

USA, Director of Military Aeronautics

1918-1919

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King, Rear Adm. Ernest J.

USN, Chief, BuAer

1933-1936

 

Kinler, Brig. Gen. Walter G.

USA

1939-1940

 

Kraus, Rear Adm. Sydney

USN, BuAer

1936-1943

 

Land, Capt. Emory S.

USN, BuAer

1923-1929

 

Lindbergh, Charles A.

New York City

1931-1939

 

Littlewood, William

American Airlines

1944-1953

 

Lonnquest, Rear Adm. Theodore C.

USN, BuAer

1947-1952

 

McCain, Vice Adm. John S.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1942-1944

 

McCarthy, Charles J.

Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc.

1957-1958

 

MacCracken, William P., Jr.

Assistant Secretary of Commerce

1929-1938

 

McIntosh, Col. Lawrence W.

USA

1923-1924

 

Marvin, Charles F.

Chief, Weather Bureau

1915-1934

 

Mead, George J.

Hartford, Conn.

1939-1943

 

Menoher, Maj. Gen. Charles T.

USA, Chief of Air Service

1919-1921

 

Mitscher, Vice Adm. Marc .

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1945-1946

 

Moffett, Rear Adm. William A.

USN, Chief, BuAer

1921-1933

 

Mulligan, Denis

Director, Bureau of Air Commerce

1938

 

Murray, Robert B., Jr.

Under Secretary of Commerce

1953-1954

 

Newton, Byron R.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

1915-1918

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Noble, Edward J.

Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Authority

1938-1939

 

Nyrop, Donald W.

Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board

1951-1952

 

Ofstie, Vice Adm. Ralph A.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1953-1954

 

Pace, Rear Adm. Ernest M., Jr.

USN, BuAer

1943-1944

 

Patrick, Maj. Gen. Mason M.

USA, Chief Air Service

1921-1927

 

Pfingstag, Rear Adm. Carl J.

USN, Chief for Field Activities, BuAer

1955-1957

 

Powers, Maj. Gen. Edward M.

USAF

1945-1949

 

Pratt, Maj. Gen. Henry C.

USA

1930-1935

 

Price, Vice Adm. John D.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1948-1950

 

Pupin, Michael I.

Columbia University

1915-1922

 

Putt, Lt. Gen. Donald L.

USAF, Deputy Chief of Staff, Development

1949-1958

 

Pyle, James T.

Administrator of Civil Aeronautics

1937-1958

 

Quarles, Donald A.

Assistant Secretary of Defense

1954-1956

 

Radford, Vice Adm. Arthur W.

USN, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air)

1946-1947

 

Raymond, Dr. Arthur E.

Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.

1946-1956

 

Reber, Lt. Col. Samuel

USA, OIC Aviation Section, Signal Corps

1915-1916

 

Reichelderfer, Dr. Francis W.

Chief, U.S. Weather Bureau

1939-1958

 

Rentzei, Delos W.

Administrator of Civil Aeronautics; Under Secretary of Commerce

1948-1951

 

Richardson, Capt. Holden C.

USN, Naval Constructor

1915-1917

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Richardson, Rear Adm. Lawrence B.

USN, BuAer

1944-1946

 

Rickenbacker, Capt. Edward V.

Eastern Air Lines Inc.

1956-1958

 

Robins, Brig. Gen. Augustine W.

USA

1935-1939

 

Rothschild, Louis S.

Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation

1955-1958

 

Ryan, Oswald

Civil Aeronautics Board

1954

 

Sabine, Wallace C.

Bureau of Aircraft Production

1918

 

Saville, Maj. Gen. Gordon P.

USAF

1950-1951

 

Scriven, Brig. Gen. George P.

USA, Chief Signal Officer

1915-1917

 

Spaatz, Gen. Carl

USAF, Chief of Staff

1946-1948

 

Squier, Maj. Gen. George O.

USA, Chief Signal Officer

1916-1918

 

Stevens, Rear Adm. Leslie C.

USN, Assistant Chief, BuAer

1946-1947

 

Stratton, Samuel W.

Director, Bureau of Standards

1915-1931

 

Taylor, Rear Adm. David W.

USN, Chief Naval Constructor (civilian member from 1922)

1917-1938

 

Towers, Rear Adm. John H.

USN, Assistant and Chief, BuAer

1917-1919; 1929-1931; 1939-1942

 

Twining, Gen. Nathan F.

USAF, Chief of Staff

1954-1957

 

Vandenberg, Gen. Hoyt S.

USAF, Chief of Staff

1948-1950

 

Vidal, Eugene L.

Director, Bureau of Air Commerce

1933-1937

 

Walcott, Dr. Charles D.

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

1915-1927

 

Warner, Dr. Edward P.

Aviation magazine; industry consultant; later, Civil Aeronautics Board

1929-1945

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Webster, William

Chairman, Research and Development Board

1950-1951

 

Westover, Maj. Gen. Oscar

USA, Chief of Air Corps

1936-1938

 

Wetmore. Dr. Alexander

Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

1945-1952

 

Weyerbacher, Cdr. Ralph D.

USN, BuAer

1934-1936

 

White, Gen. Thomas D.

USAF, Chief of Staff

1957-1958

 

Whitman. Walter G.

Chairman, Research and Development Board

1951-1953

 

Wright. Orville

Dayton, Ohio

1920-1948

 

Wright, Dr. Theodore P.

Director of Aircraft Production; Administrator of Civil Aeronautics; Cornell University

1942-1953

Source: Eugene M. Emme, Aeronautics and Astronautics: An American Chronology of Science and Technology in the Exploration of Space, 1915-1960 (Washington: NASA, 1961), pp. 202 205.

Director of Research

George W. Lewis, 1919-1947

Hugh L. Dryden, 1947-1958

 

Secretary/ Executive Secretary

John F. Victory, 1915-1958

 

Assistant Secretary and Executive Officer

Edward H. Chamberlin, 1918-1958

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George W. Lewis	Hugh L. Dryden

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The following Langley researchers are mentioned in the text or notes of this book. In general, the list includes those researchers to whom more than mere passing reference is made. Some of the "researchers" included were in fact technical service employees who supported research.

Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Abbott, Ira H. (b. 1906)MIT, B.S. '29, aero. eng.;1929-1947 (detailed to NACA HQ)
• Alford, William L. (b. 1921)Wayne State, B.S. '49, aero. eng.; 1949-NASA
• Allen, H. Julian (b. 1910)Stanford, A.B. '32, M.A. '35, mech. eng.; 1936-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Ames, Milton B. (b. 1913)Georgia Tech, B.S. '36, aero. eng.;1936-1941 (detailed to NACA HQ)
• Ayer, Bruce E. (b. 1904)Univ. Illinois, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1941 (transferred to AERL)
• Baals, Donald D. (b. 1916)Purdue, B.S. '38, mech. eng.; M.S. '39,aero. eng.; 1939-NASA
• Babberger, Carl (b. 1909)Stanford, B.S. '34, mech. eng.; 1936-1939
• Bacon, David L. (b. 1895)Yale, B.A. '16, physics; 1920-1924
• Bailey, Frederick J., Jr. (b. 1911)MIT, B.S. '34, aero. eng.; 1934-1955
• Bamber, Millard J. (b. 1898)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '26, aero. eng.; 1927-1944
• Becker, John V. (b. 191:)New York Univ., B.S. '35, mech. eng.; M.S. '36, aero. eng.; 1936-NASA
• Beeler, De Elroy (b. 1915)Kansas St. Univ., B.S. '41, mech. eng.; 1941-1954 (transferred to HSFS)
• Biermann, Arnold E. (b. 1904)Purdue, B.S. '28, mech. eng.; 1928-1942
• Biermann, David J. (b. 907)Purdue, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1943
• Bioletti, Canton (b. 1906)Univ. California, B.S. '30, mech. eng.;1930-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Bogdonoff, Seymour M. (b. 1921)Rensselaer Poly. Inst., B.S. '42, aero. eng.;1942-1947
• Brevoort, Maurice J. (b. 1900)Allegheny Coll., B.S. '22; Univ. Nebraska, M.A. '24, physics; 1930-1958
• Brown, Clinton E. (b. 1920)Purdue, B.S. '41, M.S. '42, mech. eng.; 1942-NASA
• Buckley, Edmund C. (b. 1904)Rensselaer Poly. Inst, B.S. '27, electr. eng.; 1930-NASA

Name & year of birthCollege degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Busemann, Adolf (b. 1901)Tech. Hochschule Braunschweig, Ing. Dipl. '24, Dr. Ing. '25; 1947-NASA
• Butler, T. Melvin (b. 1917)Virginia Poly. Inst., B.S. '39, indus. eng.;1939-NASA
• Carroll, Thomas (b. 1890)Georgetown, law '20; 1920-1929
• Clay, William C. (b. 1903)MIT, B.S. '28, aero. eng.; 1928-1939
• Collier, Thomas M. (b. 1901)No degree; 1926-1932Conner, D. William (b. 1920)Ohio Northern, B.S. '42, mech. eng.; 1942-NASA
• Corson, Blake W., Jr. (b. 1908)Univ. Richmond, B.S. '32, math;1935-NASA
• Cram, Percy J. (b. 1913)Georgia Tech, B.S. '35, mech. eng.;1939-NASA
• Crigler, John L. (b. 1905)William and Mary, B.S. '27, math and physics; 1928-NASA
• Crowley, John W., Jr. (b. 1; 99)MIT, B.S. '20, mech. eng.; 1921-1947 (transferred to NACA HQ)
• Davidson, Milton (b. 1917)Univ. Alabama, B.S. '38, aero. eng.; 1940-1946

[416] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Dawson, John R. (b. 1909)Rice Inst., B.S. '29, civil eng.; 1930-NASA
• Dearborn, Clinton H. (b 1897)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '22, mech. eng.;1927-1950 (transferred to NACA HQ)
• DeFrance, Smith J. (b. 896)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '22, aero. eng.;1922-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Delano, James B. (b. 1911)New York Univ., B.S. '35, mech. eng.;1936-1953
• Demming, Arthur (b. 1905)Univ. California, B.S. '30, electr. eng.;1930-4939
• Donaldson, Coleman duPont (b. 1922)Rensselaer Poly. Inst., B.S. '42, aero. eng.;1943-1952
• Donely, Philip (b. 1909)MIT, B.S. '31, aero. eng.; 1931-NASA
• Donlan, Charles J. (b. 1916)MIT, B.S. '38, aero. eng.; 1938-NASA
• Draley, Eugene C. (b. 1916)Catholic Univ., B.S. '38, aero. eng.; 1938-NASA
• Duberg, John E. (b. 1917)Manhattan Coil., B.S. '38; Virginia Poly. Inst., M.S. '40; Univ. Illinois, Ph.D. '48, civil eng.; 1943-NASA
• Ebert, John W., Jr. (b. 1913)Johns Hopkins, B.S. '35, mech. eng.; 1935-1947 (detailed to NACA HQ)
• Ellerbrock, Herman H. b. (1906)Johns Hopkins, B.S. '27, mech. eng.; 1930-1942 (transferred to AERL)
• Ellis, Macon C., Jr. (b. 918)Alabama Poly. Inst. (Auburn), B.S. '39, aero. eng.; 1939-NASA
• Faget, Maxime A. (b. 1921)Louisiana St. Univ., B.S. '43, mech. eng.;1946-NASA
• Fairbanks, Andrew J. (b. 1901)Cornell, B.S. '24, mech. eng.; 1924-1927
• Fairbanks, Karl J. (b. 1902)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '24, aero. eng.;1924-1926
• Fedziuk, Henry A. (b. 1916)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '39, aero. eng.; 1939-NASA
• Ferri, Antonio (b. 1912)Univ. di Roma, Dr. Ing. '36; 1944-1951
• Forrest, Marvin (b. 1906)No degree; 1927-NASA
• Gardiner, Arthur (b. 1898)Swarthmore, A.B. '20, civil eng.; 1920-1927
• Garnick, I. Edward (b. 1910)Univ. Chicago, A.B. '30, math and physics;1930-NASA
• Gerrish, Harold C. (b. 1891)Univ. Maine, B.S. '14, electr. eng.;
• 1926-1943 (transferred to Ames)Gilruth, Robert R. (b. 1913)Univ. Minnesota, B.S. '35, M.S. '36 Aero. Eng.: 1937-NASA

Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Glass, Clindon (b. 1899)No degree; 1925-1940
• Goett, Harry J. (b. 1910)Holy Cross, B.S. '31, physics and math; New York Univ., B.S. '33, aero. eng.; 1936-1940
• Gough, Melvin N. (b. 1906)Johns Hopkins, B.S. '26, mech. eng.;1926-NASA
• Griffith, Leigh M. (b. 1882)California Inst. of Technology, B.S. '02, mech.eng.; 1918-1924
• Gustafson, Frederic B. (b. 1913)Univ. Kansas, B.S. '36, M.S. '38, mech. eng.; 1938-NASA
• Harris, Thomas A. (b. 1903)William and Mary, B.S. '29, physics; 1927-NASA
• Hartmann, Edwin P. (b. 1905)Marquette, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1930-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Heldenfels, Richard R. (b. 1920)MIT, B.S. '42, aero. eng.; 1947-NASA
• Hemke, Paul E. (b. 1890)Univ. Chicago, A.B., M.A.; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D. '24, physics; 1924-1927
• Herrnstein, William H., Jr. (b. 1905)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '27, aero. eng.;1927-NASA
• Higgins, George J. (b. 1897)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '23, aero. eng.;1923-1928
• Hill, Paul R. (b. 1909)Univ. California, B.S. '36, mech. eng.;1939-NASA
• Hooker, Ray W. (b. 1906)Purdue, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1930-NASA

[418] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Hoover, Herbert H. (b. 1912)Univ. Tennessee, B.S. '34, mech. eng.;1940-1952 (killed in crash of B-45 during research flight)
• House, Rufus O. (b. 1907)William and Mary, B.S. '29, math;1927-NASA
• Howe, Edward A. (b. 1918)Syracuse, B.S. '43, aero. eng.; 1943-NASA
• Huckel, Vera (b. 1908)Univ. Pennsylvania, B.S. '29, math;1939-NASA
• Hulcher, Charles A. (b. 1910)No degree; 1930-1954
• Jacobs, Eastman N. (b. 1902)Univ. California, B.S. '24, mech. eng.; 1925-1944
• Joachim, William F. (b. 1893)Univ. Minnesota, B.S. '21, mech. eng.;1922-1929
• Johnson, Caldwell C. (b. 1919)No degree (2 years at Univ. Virginia);1937-NASA
• Johnson, Harold I. (b. 1920)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '41, aero. eng.;1941-NASA
• Johnson, W. Kemble (b. 1911)Virginia Poly. Inst., B.S. '33, chem. eng.;1934-NASA
• Jones, Robert T. (b. 1910)No degree (took classes at Univ. Missouri and Catholic Univ.); 1934-1946 (transferred to Ames)
• Joyner, Upshur T. (b. 1908)William and Mary, B.S. '31, physics and math; 1931-NASA
• Kantrowitz, Arthur (b. 1911)Columbia Univ., B.S. '34, M.A. '35, Ph.D. '45, physics; 1935-1946
• Kaplan, Carl (b. 1904)Johns Hopkins, B.S. '26, M.S. '28, chemistry; Ph.D. '30, physics; 1932-1956
• Katzoff, Samuel (h. 1909)Johns Hopkins, B.S. '29, Ph.D. '34, chemistry; 1936-NASA
• Keffer, Percy R. (b. 1897)No degree (Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. Apprentice School, 4 years); 1920--NASA
• Kemper, Carlton (b. 1899)Univ. Pennsylvania, B.S. '23, mech. eng.; 1924-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• King, Paul B. (b. 1892)No degree (took classes at Univ. Utah);1922-1927
• Kirschbaum, Howard W. (b. 1903)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '27, aero. eng.; 1927-1941 (transferred to Ames)
• Knight, Montgomery (b. 1901)MIT, B.S. '22, electr. eng.; 1925-1930

[419] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Koppen, Otto (b. 1900)MIT, B.S. '23, mech. eng.; 1924-1925
• Korycinski, Peter F. (b. 1917)Georgia Tech, B.S. '42, mech. eng.; 1942-NASA
• Kotanchik, Joseph N. (b. 1903)MIT, B.S. '38, mech. eng.; 1938-NASA
• Kraft, Christopher C., Jr. (b. 1924)Virginia Poly. Inst., B.S. '44, aero. eng.;1945-NASA
• Kuhn, Paul (b. 1903)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '30, aero. eng.;1931-NASA
• Lindsey, Walter F. (b. 1910)Virginia Military Inst., B.S. '30, electr. eng.; 1931-NASA
• Loftin, Laurence K., Jr. (b. 1919)Univ. Virginia, B.S. '43, mech. eng.;1944-NASA
• Lorenzen, Coby (b. 1905)Univ. California, B.S. '29, mech. eng.;1929-1931
• Lundquist, Eugene E. (b. 1907)Univ. Nebraska, B.S. '28, Ph.D. '44, civil eng.; 1941-NASA
• McAvoy, William H. (b. 1896)No degree; 1921-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• McHugh, James G. (b. 1906)North Dakota St. Coil., B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1956
• McLellan, Charles H. (b. 1915)Univ. Washington, B.S. '37, aero. eng.;1938-NASA
• Maher, Edward T. (b. 1920)Pierce Business School '39; 1947-NASA
• Mattson, Axel T. (b. 1916)North Carolina St , B.S. '41, mech. eng.;1941-NASA
• Mayo, William B. (b. 1910)No degree; 1939-NASA
• Messick, J. Cabelle (b. 1909)No degree; 1928-NASA
• Miller, Elton W. (b. 1881)George Washington Univ., B.S. '08, mech. eng.; 1922-1948
• Mixson, Robert E. (b. 1895)No degree; 1919-1957
• Morgan, William C. (b. 1880)Cornell, M.S. '06, mech. eng.; 1921-1950
• Mueller, James N. (b. 1920)Alabama Poly. Inst. (Auburn), B.S. '42, mech. eng.; B.S. '46, aero. eng.; 1946-NASA
• Munk, Max M. (b. 1890)Hanover Poly., Dipl. Ing. '14; Univ. Gottingen, Ph.D. '18, physics; 1921-1927
• Myers, Edward A. (b. 1884)No degree; 1927-1933
• Neihouse, Anshal I. (b. 1908)Virginia Poly. Inst., B.S. '30, M.S. '31, electr. eng.; 1935-NASA
• Nelson, William J. (b. 1916)MIT, B.S. '38, aero. eng.; 1938-NASA

Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Nichols, Mark R. (b. 1916)Alabama Poly. Inst. (Auburn), B.S. '38, aero. eng.; 1940-NASA
• Norton, Frederick H. (b. 1897)MIT, B.S. '18, physics; 1918-1923
• Orlin, William J. (b. 1920)Rensselaer Poly. Inst., B.S. '42, aero. eng.;1938-NASA
• O'Sullivan, William J., Jr. (b. 1915)Notre Dame, B.S. '37, aero. eng.;1938-NASA
• Parkinson, John B. (b. 1907)Webster Inst. of Nav. Arch., B.S. '29, nav. arch.; 1931-NASA
• Parsons, John F. (b. 1908)Stanford, B.S. '30, mech. eng.; 1931-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Pearson, Henry A. (b. 1906)Worcester Poly. Inst., B.S. '30, mech. eng.;1930-NASA
• Phillips, William H. (b. 1918)MIT, B.S. '39, M.S. '40, aero. eng.; 1940-NASA
• Pinkel, Benjamin (b. 1909)Univ. Pennsylvania, B.S. '30, electr. eng.; 1931-1942 (transferred to AERL)
• Pinkerton, Robert M. (b. 1905)Bradley Univ., B.S. '28, physics; 1929-1931, 1932-1941, 1949-1952
• Platt, Robert C. (b. 1910)MIT, B.S. '31, aero. eng.; 1931-1940

[421] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Polhamus, Edward C. (b. 1921)Univ. Maryland, B.S. '44, mech. eng.; 1944-NASA
• Purser, Paul E. (b. 1918)Louisiana St. Univ., B.S. '39, aero. eng.; 1939--NASA
• Recant, Isadore G. (b. 1913)New York Univ., B.S. '33, mech. eng.; B.S. '34, aero. eng.;1937-NASA
• Reeder, John P. (b. 1916)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '38, aero. eng.;1938-NASA
• Regier, Arthur A. (b. 1909)Kansas St. Univ., B.S. '33, electr. eng.;1938-NASA
• Reid, Elliott G. (b. 1900)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '22, M.S. '23, aero. eng.;1922-1927
• Reid, Henry J. E. (b. 1895)Worcester Poly. Inst., B.S. '19, electr. eng.;1921-NASA
• Reiser, Walter H. (b. 1893)No degree; 1923-1951
• Rhode, Richard V. (b. 1904)Univ. Wisconsin, B.S. '25, mech. eng.; 1925-1950 (detailed to NACA HQ)
• Ribner, Herbert S. (b. 1913)California Inst. of Technology, B.S. '35; Washington Univ., M.S. '37, Ph.D. '39, physics; 1940-1949 (transferred to AERL)
• Ritter, W. K. (b. 1906)Univ. Oklahoma, B.S. '26, mech. eng.;1929-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Rizzo, Frank S. (b. 1886)MIT, B.S. '17, mech. eng.; M.S. '22, aero. eng.; 1922-1932
• Robinson, Russell G. (b. 1907)Stanford, B.S. '28, M.S. '30, aero. eng.;1930-1939 (detailed to NACA HQ)
• Rodert, Lewis A. (b. 1906)Univ. Minnesota, B.S. '30, aero. eng.;1936-1940 (transferred to Ames)
• Rogallo, Francis M. (b. 1912)Stanford, A.B. '32, M.S. '35, aero. eng.; 1936-NASA
• Rollin, Vernon G. (b. 1906)Univ. Minnesota, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Rothrock, Addison (b. 1903)Penn St. Univ., B.S. '25, physics; 1926-1942 (transferred to AERL)
• Rubert, Kennedy F. (b. 1906)Cornell, B.S. '27, M.S. '33, Ph.D. '35, mech. eng.; New York Univ., B.S. '28, aero. eng.; 1941-NASA
• Runckel, Jack F. (b. 1916)Univ. Wisconsin, B.S. '39, mech. eng.; 1940-NASA

[422] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Schey, Oscar W. (b. 1897)Univ. Minnesota, B.S. '23, mech. eng.;1923-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Schultz, Fred W. (b. 1903)Kansas St. Univ., B.S. '26, agriculture;1929-1930
• Seidman, Oscar (b. 1909)Rutgers, B.S. '29, M.S. '31, math and chemistry; 1931-1945
• Sherman, Albert E. (b. 1910)New York Univ., B.S. '31, aero. eng.;1931-1943
• Shoemaker, James M. (b. 1902)Purdue, B.S. '25, mech. eng.; MIT, M.S. '28, aero. eng.; 1925-1927, 1931-1935
• Shortai, Joseph A. (b. 1908)Texas A&M, B.S. '29, mech. eng.;1929-NASA
• Silverstein, Abraham (b. 1908)Rose Poly. Inst., B.S. '29, mech. eng.;1929-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Soulé, Hartley A. (b. 1905)New York Univ., B.S. '27, aero. eng.;1927-NASA
• Stack, John (b. 1906)MIT, B.S. '28, aero. eng.; 1928-NASA
• Stickle, George W. (b. 1906)Purdue, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1951
• Stone, David G. (b. 1919)Univ. Washington, B.S. '41, aero. eng.; 1941-NASA
• Strailman, Gilbert T. (b. 1900)No degree; 1927-1954
• Theodorsen, Theodore (b. 1897)Univ. Trondheim, Dr. Ing. '22; Johns Hopkins, Ph.D. '29, physics; 1929-1946
• Thompson, Floyd L. (b. 1898)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '26, aero. eng.;1926-NASA
• Toll, Thomas A. (b. 1914)Univ. California, B.S. '41, mech. eng.;1941-NASA
• Tozier, Robert E. (b. 1908)Linfield College (Ore.), B.S. '30, physics;1930-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Truscott, Starr (b. 1886)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '09, mech. eng.;1926-1946
• Truszynski, Gerald M. (b. 1921)Rutgers, B.S. '44, electr. eng.;1944-1954 (transferred to HSFS)
• Tucker, Virginia (b. 1909)Univ. North Carolina, A.B. '35, math;1935-1947
• Turner, Harold R., Sr. (b. 1894)No degree; 1922-NASA
• Turner, Harold R., Jr. (b. 1919)No degree (attended Univ. Virginia night school extension); 1938-1953
• Turner, Lindsey I., Jr. (b. 1912)Georgia Tech, B.S. '34, aero. eng.; 1937-NASA

Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Underwood, William J. (b. 1916)Georgia Tech, B.S. '40, aero. eng.; 1940-1948
• von Doenhoff, Albert E. (b. 1910)Columbia Univ., B.S. '30, electr. eng.; 1931-NASA
• Waldron, Clyde D. (b. 1907)Univ. Arkansas, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1942 (transferred to AERL)
• Ward, Kenneth E. (b. 1903)Univ. California, B.S. '29, mech. eng.; 1929-1940
• Ward, Vernon G. (b. 1919)Syracuse Univ., B.S. 43, mech. eng.; 1943-1951
• Ware, Marsden (b. 1896)Rensselaer Poly. Inst., B.S. '18, mech. eng.; 1918-1927

[424] Name & year of birth, College degree(s) & dates of Langley employment

• Weick, Fred E. (b. 1899)Univ. Illinois, B.S. '22, mech. eng.;1925-1929, 1930-1936
• Wenzinger, Carl (b. 1903)Swarthmore, A.B. '25, M.S. '29, mech. eng.;1927-1946
• Wetmore, Joseph W. (b. 1909)MIT, B.S. '31, aero. eng.; 1931-NASA
• Wheatley, John B. (b. 1908)Stanford, B.S. '30, mech. eng.; 1930-1937
• Whitcomb, Richard T. (b. 1921)Worcester Poly. Inst., B.S. '43, mech. eng.;1943-NASA
• Williams, Waiter C. (b. 1919)Louisiana St. Univ., B.S. '39, aero. eng.;1940-1954 (transferred to HSFS)
• Wilson, Herbert A., Jr. (b. 1914)Georgia Tech, B.S. '34, aero. eng.;1937-NASA
• Windler, Raymond (b. 1902)Univ. Missouri, B.S. '24, mech. eng.;1928-NASA
• Wood, Donald H. (b. 1898)Rensselaer Poly. Inst., B.S. '20, mech. eng.;1924-1941 (transferred to Ames)
• Woods, Robert J. (b. 1904)Univ. Michigan, B.S. '28, aero. eng.;1928-1929
• Wright, Ray H. (b. 1907)Univ. Kentucky, M.S. '33, physics;1935-NASA
• Young, Pearl I. (b. 1895)Univ. North Dakota, B.A. '19, physics;1922-1943 (transferred to AERL)
• Zimmerman, Charles H. (b. 1907)Univ. Kansas, B.S. '28, mech. eng.; 1929-1937, 1946-NASA

Director: Henry J. E. Reid

Associate Director: Floyd L. Thompson

Executive Assistant and Budget Officer: Rufus O. House

Chief, Research Reports Division: Henry A. Fedziuk

Assistant Director: John Stack

Chief, Compressibility Research Division: John V. Becker

Chief, Full-Scale Research Division: Eugene C. Draley

Chief, Theoretical Mechanics Division: Clinton E. Brown

Chief, Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Division: Herbert A. Wilson, Jr.

Assistant Director: Robert R. Gilruth

Chief, Dynamic Loads Division: I. Edward Garrick

Chief, Pilotless Aircraft Research Division: Joseph A. Shortal

Chief, Structures Research Division: Richard R. Heldenfels

Assistant Director of Research: Hartley A. Soulé

[425] Chief, Flight Research Division: Melvin N. Gough

Chief, Hydrodynamics Division: John B. Parkinson

Chief, Stability Research Division: Thomas A. Harris

Chief, Instrument Research Division: Edmund C. Buckley

Chief of Technical Services: Percy J. Cram

Chief, Engineering Service Division: John C. Messick

Chief, Mechanical Service Division: William B. Mayo

Chief, Maintenance Division: Marvin Forrest

Chief, Electrical Services Division: Joseph Getsug

Chief, Administrative Services: Elton W. Miller

Fiscal Officer: Edward A. Howe

Chief, Office Services Division: Edward T. Maher

Personnel Officer: T. Melvin Butler

Chief, Photographic Division: Harry H. Hamilton

Procurement and Supply Officer: Sherwood L. Butler

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