Albert Francis Zahm
American aeronautical experimenter and professor of physics / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Albert Francis Zahm (1862 – July 23, 1954) was an early aeronautical experimenter, a professor of physics, and a chief of the Aeronautical Division of the U.S. Library of Congress. He testified as an aeronautical expert in the 1910–14 lawsuits between the Wright brothers and Glenn Curtiss.
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Born | 1862 New Lexington, Ohio, U.S. |
Died | (1954-07-23)July 23, 1954 Notre Dame, Indiana, U.S. |
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Known for | testimony in Wrights v. Curtiss |
Awards | Laetare Medal |
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Fields | Aeronautics |
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Thesis | The resistance of the air determined at speeds below one thousand feet a second, with description of two new methods of measuring projectile velocities inside and outside the gun. (1898) |
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Doctoral students | Richard Harbert Smith |
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