Hugh L. Dryden

Hugh L. Dryden (born July 2, 1898, Pocomoke City, Maryland, U.S.—died December 2, 1965, Washington, D.C.) was an American physicist and deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for seven years. Educated at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1920, Dryden was named chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards, Washington. He made pioneering studies in the aerodynamics of high speed and some of the earliest studies of airflow...