Joseph Sweetman Ames
Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physicist, professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 to 1929, and university president from 1929 to 1935. He is best remembered as one of the founding members of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics 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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Date of Birth
July 3rd, 1864
Age
159
Birth Place
United States of America, Vermont
Date of Death
June 24th, 1943
Died Aged
78
Star Sign
Cancer
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