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02 Satish Dhawan: The Father of Experimental Fluid
MAR Dynamics in India
By
(https://connect.iisc.ac.in/author/apcconnectadmin/)Nithyanand
Rao (https://connect.iisc.ac.in/author/nithyanand-rao/)
Satish Dhawan (Photo courtesy: Roddam Narasimha)
It was in 1946 that Dhawan arrived at the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory of the California
Institute of Technology (GALCIT, now Graduate Aerospace Laboratories), wanting to work with
Hans Liepmann. But the Indian students Liepmann had worked with until then had given him the
impression that “perhaps the select group that came to Caltech from India had prejudices against
manual labor and essential, but not highly intellectual and glamorous, routines.”
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