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JAMES A. FAY
Pages 98-103

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From page 99...
... He joined the Cornell faculty and taught there until 1955 when he was hired into the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His early career work on combustion and detonation, hyper sonic heat transfer, magnetohydrodynamics, and plasma­ dynamics led to his election to the NAE.
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From page 100...
... attacks through even the most stressful controversies was absolutely remarkable." In addition to his NAE membership, Jay was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Physical Society, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of four other technical societies. He served on 12 boards, committees, and panels of the National Research Council (NRC)
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From page 101...
... This will assume even more impor tance in the future as it becomes more difficult to find and more costly to use new technological means of simultaneously satis­ fying different human needs competing for the same limited environmental resources. He also served two terms on the NRC's Environmental Studies Board and was appointed to the Committee on Risk Perception and Communication and the Panel on Integration of Socio-Economic Criteria into the Site Selection Process for a High-Level Radioactive Waste Repository.
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From page 102...
... 102 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES The number of people who will miss Jay extends to the many professionals at MIT and a host of other institutions and causes that benefited from his extraordinary personal talents. We are all of one mind in declaring that he was a delightful companion and inspirational individual to the end.
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