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ARTHUR G. HANSEN
Pages 112-117

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From page 113...
... He was raised by his father who had an eighth-grade education and was a clerk in a hardware store in Sturgeon Bay. When the Depression hit in 1929, the family moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Art's father first worked in a paper mill and then owned a small grocery store, where as a young boy Art stocked shelves and delivered groceries.
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From page 114...
... He claimed he then "wandered into the Purdue Placement Office," where he met a recruiter from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics who hired him to go to NACA's Lewis Research Laboratory in Cleveland where Art launched his research career. There, Hansen worked on the fluid dynamics of flow over wings and compressor blades by applying the math skills he had learned at Purdue.
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From page 115...
... In 1959 he moved to the University of Michigan to become a professor of mechanical engineering. There he was assigned to teach an undergraduate course and a graduate course in fluid dynamics, which was somewhat of a challenge since he was not a mechanical engineer and had never taken a fluid dynamics course at any level.
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From page 116...
... Hansen Life Sciences Research Building on the Purdue University campus was an important tribute to his influence. In 1982, Art left Purdue to become chancellor of the Texas A&M System, a position he held for four years before retiring to become director of research for the Hudson Institute for two years.
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From page 117...
... Hansen also approved establishment of the Gay Rights Club at Purdue despite considerable opposition. While at Texas A&M he succeeded in increasing financial support for Prairie View A&M, a historically black college in the Texas A&M System, by threatening the governing board with a lawsuit if the board did not agree.
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