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GEORGE W. SUTTON
Pages 384-389

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From page 385...
... George Sutton was born to Jack and Pauline Sutton in Brooklyn, New York, on August 3, 1927. After attending Brooklyn Technical High School he served in the United States Merchant Marine during World War II and the Army Air Force in Okinawa through 1947.
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From page 386...
... Sutton made many significant contributions in aerospace. In addition to being the first to measure the heat transfer in the throat of a rocket nozzle, he invented the ablation heat shield material allowing safe reentry from space used by US ICBMs and early crewed spaceflight; produced the first resolved photo­graph of a foreign spacecraft from Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS)
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From page 387...
... The American Society of Mechanical Engineers awarded him the Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V Fitzroy Medal in 2015 "for distinguished contributions to the art and science of mechanical engineering including cavitation, hypersonic heat transfer, direct energy conversion, high-energy lasers and aero-optics; and for the invention of the first successful reentry ablation material and the development of the transcutaneous energy supply for artificial hearts." He was involved in a number of activities of the National Academies and NAE.
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From page 388...
... He was also a devoted family man, treasuring opportunities to travel abroad with his wife, go sailing with his sons, and spend time with his much-loved grandchildren. He was preceded in death -- just a month earlier -- by his beloved wife and best friend of 68 years, Evelyn Doris (née Kunnes)
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