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Joseph Sweetman Ames, Ph. D ( 1864 - 1943 ) was a Physics professor at Johns Hopkins University , provost of the university from 1926 until 1929 , and university president from 1929 until 1935 . ref He was born at Manchester, Vt. 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 wrote:
Mr. Ames was also an assistant editor of ''Astro-Physical 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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