Stanford S. Penner
| Stanford S. Penner | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 4, 1921 Unna, Germany |
| Died | July 15, 2016 (aged 95) La Jolla, United States |
| Citizenship | German American |
| Fields | Aerospace Engineering |
| Institutions |
California Institute of Technology, University of California, San Diego |
| Alma mater |
Union College, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Thesis |
I. National Defense Research Council Project (Condidential) II. Calculations on the formation and decomposition of Nitric-oxide in pebble beds at high temperature. (1946) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Farrington Daniels, Theodore von Kármán |
| Doctoral students |
Forman A. Williams Daniel Olfe Allen Fuhs Martin Goldsmith Andrew Guttman Fredrick Harshbarger William Hooker Theodore Jacobs Marshall Lapp Roy Reichenbach J. Thomson |
Stanford Solomon Penner (4 July 1921 - 15 July 2016) also known as Sol Penner, was a German-American scientist and engineer, a major figure in combustion physics, especially in rocket engines, and a founder of the Engineering program at University of California, San Diego. He obtained his PhD in 1946 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under Farrington Daniels and Theodore von Kármán.
Stanford S. Penner was born on July 4, 1921 in Unna, Germany, a small town in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. He moved to the U.S. when he was 15 and he earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Union College in New York in 1942. He obtained his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison under the supervision of Farrington Daniels and Theodore von Kármán, specializing in the development of rocket engines, and became a researcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory after finishing his doctorate.
After working as a research engineer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1946-1950, he became the Professor of Jet Propulsion at Caltech from 1950-1964. At 1964, he came to UCSD as a founding chair of the UCSD's first engineering department. In 1973, he created the Center for Energy Research at UCSD as a place for researchers from across campus and around the world to come together to pursue critical, interdisciplinary energy research.
Penner also founded two scientific journals: the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer in 1960, serving as chief editor for over 30 years and in 1975 he founded Energy, An International Journal and of the (classified) Journal of Defense Research. Penner collaborated with Theodore von Kármán in the later years of von Kármán life for 15 years. He has received numerous professional honors, including election to the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Academy of Astronautics; he has also been awarded the Distinguished Associate Award from the US Department of Energy and the Founders Award from the National Academy of Engineering.
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