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Meredith Charles "Flash" Gourdine (September 26, 1929- November 20, 1998) was an American athlete, engineer and physicist.
Meredith Gourdine | |
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| Born | September 26, 1929 |
| Died | November 20, 1998 (aged 69) Houston, Texas |
| Alma mater | Brooklyn Technical High School B.S. Cornell University Ph.D. Caltech |
| Known for | Electrogasdynamics |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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Representing  United States | ||
 | 1952 Helsinki | Long jump |
Education
Gourdine graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School. He earned a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1953, where he was selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society.[1][2][3] In 1960 he earned a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from the California Institute of Technology while working as a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1958-60.[4]
Career
Scientific career
In 1964 Gourdine founded a research and development firm, Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jersey. In 1973 he founded Energy Innovations, a company that produced direct-energy conversion devices in Houston, Texas.[1] The companies developed engineering techniques to aid removing smoke from buildings and disperse fog from airport runways, and converting low-grade coal into inexpensive, transportable and high-voltage electrical energy.[1]
Gourdine was inducted to the Dayton, Ohio, Engineering and Science Hall of Fame in 1994.[2] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991 and also served as a Trustee of Cornell University.[2] He was an expert in Electrogasdynamics, the generation of electrical energy based on the conversion of the kinetic energy contained in a high-pressure, ionized, moving combustion gas (e.g., Ion wind).[1] He specialized in devising applications, including electric precipator systems. He also invented the Focus Flow Heat Sink, used to cool computer chips.[4]
Gourdine was granted a total of over 30 U.S. patents.[4]
Athletic career
At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, while he was still an undergraduate student at Cornell, he won a silver medal for the long jump, one and a half inch short of Jerome Biffle's gold medal jump.[2][5]
References
- "Meredith Gourdine". www.cpnas.org. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- "Telluride's Olympians: Meredith "Flash" Gourdine CB50 and Bonnie St. John SP81". Telluride Association. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- "Meredith C. Gourdine - Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 4 February 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- "Meredith C. Gourdine | Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- Carwell, Hattie (1977). Blacks in Science (First ed.). Hicksville, N.Y.: Exposition Press. pp. 50–51. ISBN 0-682-48911-5.
External links
- African Americans in the Sciences biography plus NYT obituary
- Biography of Gourdine from IEEE
- Lemelson biography
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Meredith Charles Gourdine (né le 26 septembre 1929 à Newark et mort le 20 novembre 1998 à Houston) est un ingénieur, physicien, connu pour ses travaux sur la dynamique des gaz, et un athlète américain, spécialiste du saut en longueur.[it] Meredith Gourdine
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