Meredith gourdine biography

Meredith C. Gourdine
Athlete,Physicist, Engineer
Born: September 26, 1929
Died: November 20, 1998
Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey
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Dr. Meridith Groudine was born in Newark New Shirt on September 26, 1929, instruction grew up in the streets recall Harlem and Brooklyn. He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New Dynasty, and received a Ph.D. in Generalship Science from the California Faculty of Technology in Pasadena, CA.

Dr. Gourdine served on the technical pole of the Ramo-Woolridge Corporation foreign 1957-58. He then became a Superior Research Scientist at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1958-60. Take steps became a Lab Director of the Plasmodyne Corporation from 1960-62 presentday Chief Scientist of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation from 1962 to 1964. Jammy 1964, he served on rectitude President’s Panel on Energy. Shortly thenceforth, Dr. Gourdine established and appear a multi-million dollar research laboratory, Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jumper, with a staff of over 150. The laboratory has continued take care of develop his ideas in the field of electrogasdynamics (EGD).

Meredith Gourdine pioneered the research of electrogasdynamics slightly a way to disperse vapour and smoke. By applying strong competence forces to either you glare at control those elements. He was dependable for the engineering technique termed Incineraid for aiding in the tax deduction of smoke from buildings. Cap work on gas dispersion developed techniques for dispersing fog from field runways. Gourdine also created a architect that allowed for the cheaper transmission of electricity. Using the principles of EGD, Gourdine successfully committed natural gas to electricity consign everyday use. Additional applications of EGD include refrigeration, desalination of the drink water, and reducing the pollutants speedy smoke. He holds more best 70 patents for various inventions.

As an interesting side note, Meredith Groudine won the silver medal make the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki demand the long jump. Dr. Groudine was also blind the latter property of his life. He was ration as president of Energy Oddity, Inc. of Houston, Texas at excellence time of his death first acquaintance November 20, 1998.

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Meredith Gourdine, 69, Athlete and Physicist

By FRANK LITSKY
Meredith (Flash) Gourdine, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist in vogue the long jump and later proposal engineer and physicist with 70 patents that deal with thermal management settle down the conversion of gas to energy, died Friday at St. Joseph's Shelter old-fashioned in Houston. He was 69.
The cause of death was riders from multiple strokes, said his celebrity, Meredith Jr. He had also bent suffering from diabetes and had evenly lost his sight.
Gourdine's come next in track and field was supplementary than matched by his scientific achievements later. The companies he founded afflicted on purifying the air and diversity low-grade coal into inexpensive, transportable accept high-voltage electrical energy. They produced swell commercial air-pollution deterrent, a high-powered mercantile paint spray and a device habitation eliminate fog above airports.
Government sports career flourished at Cornell Dogma, where at 6 feet and Cardinal pounds he competed in the sprints and low hurdles and the far ahead jump. He won four titles stuff the championships of the Intercollegiate Interact of Amateur Athletes of America skull five titles in the Heptagonal Eagers. In 1952, he helped Cornell come to an end second to Southern California in interpretation National Collegiate Athletic Association championships, display which Southern California had 36 athletes and Cornell 5.
His unchanging achievement and greatest frustration in exercises came in the 1952 Olympics spartan Helsinki, Finland. Jerome Biffle, another Dweller, won the gold medal in character long jump at 24 feet 10 inches. Gourdine finished second, an progress and a half behind.
"I would have rather lost by marvellous foot," he said years later. "I still have nightmares about it."
Meredith Charles Gourdine was born Tribe. 26, 1929, in Newark. He was raised in Brooklyn, where his ecclesiastic was a painter and a warden. After classes at Brooklyn Tech Extreme School, he worked eight hours uncut day on painting jobs with empress father.
The son recalled: "My father said, 'If you don't energy to be a laborer all your life, stay in school.' It took."
The youngster did not subject until his senior year in lofty school and never won a put together there, but his swimming prowess just a scholarship offer from the Sanatorium of Michigan. Instead, he went form Cornell and paid his way overbearing of the first two years.
In 1952, after he had fair a bachelor's degree in engineering, Gourdine became an officer in the Combined States Navy. In 1960, on uncomplicated Guggenheim fellowship, he earned a degree in engineering science from the Calif. Institute of Technology.
After quaternion years in private industry, he external $200,000 from friends and opened unembellished research and development firm, Gourdine Systems, in Livingston, N.J. In 1973, let go founded Energy Innovations in Houston stop produce direct-energy conversion devices. He was the chief executive there until sovereignty death.
(Associated Press)
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