Martin Summerfield
Martin Summerfield · Science & Medicine
Fluid mechanics
1916, Brooklyn, New York City, United States — 1996, United States
United States
Martin Summerfield is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics
Summerfield was a rocket-propulsion pioneer: a co-founder of Aerojet and an early leader on the Caltech/JPL jet-propulsion project, he helped develop America's first liquid-propellant rockets and built a renowned combustion laboratory at Princeton University. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Russian immigrant family. The public biographies reviewed here do not confirm his religious background; he appears in Jinfo's listing of Jewish figures in fluid mechanics.
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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
