Dean Roden Chapman
Dean Roden Chapman was a mechanical engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and at Stanford University.
Biography
He played basketball for the oft-maligned Caltech Beavers men's basketball team while he got a B.S. from Caltech. He began his professional career at Ames [Aeronautical Laboratory] in 1948, where he later became Director of Astronautics. He left government service in 1980 to join the faculty at Stanford University. At the time of his death from cancer at age 73, he was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Aeronautics and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Chapman was internationally known for his research into fluid dynamics, and for pioneering modern computational fluid dynamics. He is also remembered for his research and controversial theories on the origin of tektites.External resources
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Category:1922 births
Category:1995 deaths
Category:American mechanical engineers
Category:American aerospace engineers
Category:Engineering educators
Category:California [Institute of Technology alumni]
Category:Engineers from California
Category:20th-century [American engineers]
Category:Stanford [University Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty]