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Harry Julian Allen
Harry Julian Allen
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The following year he was appointed to the staff of NACA'S Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory near Hampton, Virginia (now NASA'S Langley Research Center) , as a Junior Aeronautical Engineer.
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in 1955, the Wright Brothers Lectureship of the same Institute in 1957, the Distinguished Service Medal of' the NACA in 1957, the Airpower Trophy of the Air Force Association in 1958, the Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement of the NASA in 1965, and the Daniel Guggenheim Medal awarded by AlAA, ASME, and SAE in 1969. Throughout his career, Harvey Allen combined the fundamental curiosity of' the natural scientist with the practical thinking of the engineer.
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His successor as Director of Ames Research Center, Hans Mark, said that time and again when he talked to members of research groups in the laboratory he was told "Oh yes, Harvey started us out on this work ten or more years ago and we have been going strong ever since along the lines he had suggested." This statement shows that the work of Harvey Allen, a very informal man revered by all his collaborators, has not reached its end yet. It will continue to produce useful results for many years alter his death.
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