1864 - 1943
Joseph Sweetman Ames American Writer
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| First Name |
Joseph
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| Middle Name |
Sweetman
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| Last Name |
Ames
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| Birthday |
3rd July, 1864
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| Birthplace |
Manchester, Vermont, USA
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| Died |
24th June, 1943
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Writer
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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.
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