Terrible Tales of Ancient Greece

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Herbert Kroemer, Robert C. Michelson, Paul R. Hill, Antonio Pérez Yuste, Richard Felder, Petr Beckmann, Robert Seamans, John D. Anderson, Nicolas Ambraseys, Wendell Nedderman, Ernst R. G. Eckert, John R. Hetling, Henry T. Yang, Clark Blanchard Millikan, John S. Macdonald, Nolan B. Aughenbaugh, Kristina M. Johnson, Vadim Khayms, Yingjie Jay Guo, Melvill Jones, John Argyris, Anatol Roshko, John Burland, Caroline Baillie, George W. Lewis, Donald A. Dahlstrom, Max Knoll, Dean Roden Chapman, Simon Ostrach, Heinrich Hertel, George Pinder, Sun Jinliang, Zhuang Shonglin, Rick Freuler, Dava Newman, Alec David Young, José Tribolet, David A. Nethercot, Yuanzhang Liu, Jiamo Fu. Excerpt: Alec David Young (15 August 1913 - 27 January 2005) was a British aero-engineer. He was Professor and Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Queen Mary College , London University , 1954-78, then Emeritus, and Vice-Principal, Queen Mary College, 1966-78. Education: Caius College, Cambridge (Wrangler, Mathematical Tripos, 1935; MA). He was awarded an OBE in 1964 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1973. A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Anatol Roshko is the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics , Emeritus , at the California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA. Dr. Roshko is known for his contributions to gas dynamics. He along with H. W. Liepmann is the authors of the widely used textbook "Elements of Gasdynamics". He has made research contributions to problems of separated flow; bluff-body aerodynamics; structure of turbulent shear flow. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics , in 1945, received the M.Sc. degree from Caltech in 1947 and the Ph.D. in 1952. Most of his academic career has been ...