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Dean R. Chapman
Pages 40-47

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... The many hours clevoted to basketball and selling newspapers may have contributed to Dean's average gracles in high school. After high school Dean and two of his friends made plans to enlist in the Army Air Corps; however, there was a requirement of some college credits to qualify for preflight training, so it was off to Los Angeles City College (LACC)
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... Upon graduation Dean accepted a position at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Arrives Aeronautical Laboratory, now the NASA Arnes Research Center.
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... During this period he was to become one of the worId's leacling authorities on such subjects as skin friction, boundary layers, base pressure, separated flows, turbulence, use of gas mixtures in wind tunnels, arcjet clevelopment, entry aerodynamics, ablation analysis, thermal protection, hypersonic real gas flows, computational aerodynamics and fluid dynamics, shock wave analysis, and tektites. The research project that challenged Dean the most was his work on the origin of tektites.
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... . By 1965 Dean's detective work had become one of the most fascinating displays of scientific virtuosity in the annals of the Ames Research Center.
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... He was awarded the Dryden Lectureship in Research by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1979 and received NASA's Distinguished Service Meclal in 1980. He was namecI Hunsaker Honorary Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1978 to 1979.
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... An inspiring leader of scientific research and a good friend, Dean Chapman will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
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