Ludwig Prandtl

	LUDWIG PPRANDTL Father of Aerodynamics
	Born Freising, Germany, February 4, 1875. He was an engineer by training who was endowed with rare vision for understanding physical phenomena and unusual ability to put them into relatively simple mathematical form. In 1901 he became Professor of Mechanics at University of Hanover. He later established a school of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics at University of Gottingen, which achieved world renown. He discovered the boundary layer in 1904 with work in wing theory that lead to understanding skin friction and drag. He later contributed in describing compressiblity effects of air at high speeds and made advances in important theories for supersonic flow and turbulence. He is considered the father of aerodynamic theory for there is hardly a part of it to which he did not contribute. Died Gottingen, Germany, August 15, 1953.
	Elected to the International Aerospace Hall of Fame 1992