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... Memorial Tributes NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
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... He took part in the planning and preparations for the establishment there of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Mechanics Research (today the Max Planck Institute for Fluid Mechanics Research) becoming its first director when it went into full operation in 1925.
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... He clesigned, built, and operated several highquality subsonic and supersonic wind tunnels at both the University of Gottingen and at the ETH. His closed-circuit supersonic wind tunnel at ETH driven by a multistage compressor permitted independent variation of Mach number en cl Reynolds number and served for many pioneering experimental investigations.
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... Ele was an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a member of the Max Planck Institute for Aerodynamic Research in Gottingen, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Medal and the Prandtl Ring. He gave the second Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Memorial Lecture to the International Astronautical Federation in 1960.


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