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Hans G. Hornung
C. L. “Kelly” Johnson Professor of Aeronautics,
Emeritus
Director of GALCIT, Emeritus
B.S.,
University of Melbourne, 1960
M.S., University of Melbourne, 1962
Ph.D., University of London
(Imperial College), 1965
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Hans G. Hornung received his bachelor
(1960) and master (1962) degrees from the Universityof Melbourne
and his Ph. D. degree (1965) in Aeronautics from Imperial College,
London. He worked in the Aeronautical Research Laboratories,
Melbourne (1962-63, and 1965-67), and in the Physics Department
of the Australian National University (1967-80), with a sabbatical
year as a Humboldt Fellow in Darmstadt, Germany, 1974. In 1980
he accepted an offer to head the Institute for Experimental
Fluid Mechanics of the DLR in Goettingen, Germany, and came
to GALCIT in 1987. He has made contributions in gasdynamics,
notably Mach reflection and effects of dissociation, in separated
flows, and in wind tunnel technology. He was elected as a foreign
member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science
in 1991 and as a foreign associate to the National Academy
of Engineering in 1997.
1988 ICAS von Karman Award, International Cooperation in Aeronautics
1991 Scientific Member of the Board of the DLR
1999 Ludwig Prandtl Ring, German Aerospace Society
Fellow, AIAA, Royal Aeronautical Society, AAAS |
