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Meredith C. Gourdine was born in Newark,
New Jersey on September 26, 1929. He received a B.S. in Engineering Physics
from Cornell University in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Engineering Physics from
the California Institute of Technology in 1960. |
Dr. Gourdine pioneered the research of
electrogasdynamics. He was responsible for the engineering technique termed
Incineraid for aiding in the removal of smoke from buildings. His work
on gas dispersion developed techniques for dispersing fog from airport
runways. Dr. Gourdine served on the Technical Staff of the Ramo-Woolridge
Corporation from 1957-58. He then became a Senior Research Scientist at
the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1958-60. He became a Lab Director
of the Plasmodyne Corporation from 1960-62 and Chief Scientist of the Curtiss-Wright
Corporation from 1962 to 1964. Dr. Gourdine established a research laboratory,
Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jersey, with a staff of over
150. Dr. Gourdine has been issued several patents on gasdynamic products
as a result of his work. Dr. Gourdine served as president of Energy Innovation,
Inc. of Houston, Texas.
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