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Science & Medicine

Nicholas Rott

Who

Nicholas Rott · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

1917, Budapest, Hungary — 2006, Zürich, Switzerland

Where

Hungary · Switzerland · United States

Biography

Nicholas Rott is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

Nicholas Rott was a Hungarian-born fluid dynamicist and aerodynamicist whose research advanced aerodynamics, acoustics and thermoacoustics; trained in Zurich, he taught at UCLA and later headed aeronautical engineering at ETH Zurich. He appears on a catalogue of Jewish figures in fluid mechanics, though standard biographies do not detail his background.

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