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Science & Medicine

Stanford Penner

Who

Stanford Penner · Science & Medicine

What

Fluid mechanics

When

1921, Unna, Germany — 2016, San Diego, California, USA

Where

Germany · United States

Biography

Stanford Penner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Fluid mechanics

How & why

Penner was a combustion physicist and founding engineering professor at the University of California, San Diego, a leading figure in rocket propulsion, spectroscopy of high-temperature gases, and energy science. He left Germany for the United States as a teenager in the mid-1930s; his Jewish background is indexed by Jinfo, though mainstream biographies do not detail it.

Sources & external links

Verify and go deeper with these external references.

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

Contributions & Sources

Fluid mechanics

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