John D. Anderson Jr. (born October 1, 1937) is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the

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at the

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in Washington, D.C., Professor Emeritus in the Department of

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at the

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Biography

John D. Anderson Jr. was born on October 1, 1937 in

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. He enrolled at the

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in Gainesville in approximately 1953. In 1959, he earned a bachelor's degree in

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with high honors. In 1959, he was hired by the

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to become a Task Scientist at the Aerospace Research Laboratory,

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. He stayed in that position until 1962, when he enrolled at

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under fellowships from the

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and

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. In 1966, Anderson earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Ohio State. That same year, he joined the United States

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in White Oak, Maryland, becoming the Chief of the Hypersonic Group. In 1973, Anderson joined the faculty of the

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, becoming Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He became Professor of Aerospace Engineering in 1980, serving in that capacity until 1999, when he retired and was named

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. He also served as an affiliate member of the History Department at UMD. The John Anderson Scholarship Fund was established in Anderson's honor in 2000 by the

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jointly with the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Anderson was elected as a member into the

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for aerospace engineering and history textbooks and for contributions to hypersonic gas dynamics. He is currently the Curator of Aerodynamics at the

Books

*''Gas Dynamic Lasers: An Introduction'',

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(1976), and under

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*''Introduction to Flight'', McGraw-Hill, 1st edition (1978), 2nd edition, (1985), 3rd edition (1989), 4th edition (2000), 5th edition (2005), 6th edition (2008), 7th edition (2011), 8th edition (2015), 9th edition (2021) *''Modern Compressible Flow'', McGraw-Hill, 1st edition (1982), 2nd edition (1990), 3rd edition (2002) *''Fundamentals of Aerodynamics'', 1st edition (1984), 2nd edition (1991), 3rd edition (2001), 4th edition (2006), 5th edition (2010), 6th edition (2017) *''Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics'', 1st edition (1989), 2nd edition (2000), 2nd revised edition (2006) *''Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications'', McGraw-Hill (1995) *''A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines'',

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(1997) *''Aircraft Performance and Design'', McGraw-Hill (1999) *''The Airplane: A History of Its Technology'',

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(2002) *''Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors'',

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(2004) *''X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age'', Zenith Press (2014)

References

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