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Abraham Hertzberg

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Abraham Hertzberg · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

2003, Bellevue, Washington, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Abraham Hertzberg is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

Hertzberg was an American aerospace engineer, long at Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory and later the University of Washington, who perfected the shock tube in the early 1950s, providing a fundamental tool for hypersonic and high-energy gas-dynamics research used by NASA and laboratories worldwide. He is documented as Jewish in Jewish biographical references, and was raised in Richmond, Virginia.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics

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Fluid mechanics

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Continuum Mechanics — Fluid Mechanics