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Alfred John Eggers, JR. 1922-2006
Alfred John Eggers, JR. 1922-2006
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later in his career he helped fashion research policy for the National aeronautics and space administration (Nasa) and led a major National science foundation effort in energy research.
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eggers is perhaps best known for a revolutionary report he cowrote with Harvey allen on the theory of blunt bodies for managing the heating challenges of reentry vehicles as they blazed into the earth's atmosphere. The heating and volumetric efficiency of blunt bodies provided the enabling nose shape for ballistic missiles and formed the basis for all human spaceflight vehicles.
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as an advocate for project engineering and physics, eggers initiated a solar probe program that evolved into the very successful Pioneer series of solar probes. He moved to Nasa headquarters and from 1964 to 1968 served as deputy associate administrator for advanced research and technology.
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He earned a presidential distinguished service award in 1977. Moving back to the san francisco Bay area, from 1977 to 1979 eggers served as director of research laboratories at the lockheed Palo alto research laboratory.
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