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Science & Medicine

Martin Summerfield

Who

Martin Summerfield · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

1916, Brooklyn, New York City, United States — 1996, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Martin Summerfield is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

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.

Sources & external links

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

Contributions & Sources

Fluid mechanics

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