Dryden, Hugh L

Dryden, Hugh L

▪ American physicist
born July 2, 1898, Pocomoke City, Md., U.S.
died Dec. 2, 1965, Washington, D.C.
 U.S. physicist and deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for seven years.

      Educated at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1920, Dryden was named chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington. He made pioneering studies in the aerodynamics of high speed and some of the earliest studies of air flow around wing surfaces at the speed of sound. In 1934 he became chief of the mechanics and sound division. During World War II he headed the Washington Project of the National Defense Research Committee, which developed the Bat radar-homing missile, the first successful U.S. guided missile, which was used by the navy against the Japanese during World War II. For his part in the project, he was awarded the Presidential Certificate of Merit in 1948.

      Dryden resigned from the National Bureau of Standards in 1947 and became director of aeronautical research of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Two years later he became director of NACA, and under his leadership the organization gained widespread recognition for its advanced aeronautical research and development. In 1958 he became deputy administrator of NASA and in 1962 led negotiations for joint U.S.–Soviet space projects. He was instrumental in achieving the exchange of weather-satellite data and operation of cooperative communications satellite tests.

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