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Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames
(July 3, 1864 – June 24, 1943) was a
physicist
, professor at
Johns Hopkins University
, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
(NACA, the predecessor of
NASA
) and its longtime chairman (1919–1939).
NASA Ames Research Center
is named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
in 1911. He was the 1935 recipient of the
Langley Gold Medal
from the
Smithsonian Institution
. Ames was also an assistant editor of
The Astrophysical Journal
and associate editor of the
American Journal of Science
; editor-in-chief of the
Scientific Memoir Series
; and editor of
J. von Fraunhofer's
memoirs on
Prismatic and Diffractive Spectra
(1898).
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