Ernst R. G. Eckert

Infobox_Scientist
name = Ernst Eckert


caption =
birth_date = birth date|1904|9|8Fact|date=May 2008
birth_place = Prague, Austria-Hungary
death_date = death date and age|2004|7|8|1904|9|8
death_place = Saint Paul, Minnesotacite web|last=Tillotson|first=Kristin |url=http://www.me.umn.edu/divisions/tht/symp2004/EckertStribObit.pdf |format=html |title=Scientist Ernst Eckert dies at 99 |work=Star Tribune|date=July 11, 2004|accessdate=2008-05-12|publisher=umn.com]
residence = West St. Paul
nationality =
United States (1950)cite web|last=Jean|first=Sheryl |url=http://www.me.umn.edu/divisions/tht/symp2004/EckertPioPressObit.pdf|format=html |title=Ernst Eckert, 99, aeronautics pioneer |work=Pioneer Press|date=July 11, 2004|accessdate=2008-05-12|publisher=TwinCities.com]
field = Heat transfer, Mass transfercite web|last=Diagulia|first=Anthony J |coauthors=Livingood, John N B & Eckert, Ernst R G|url=http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=4294752039 |format=pdf |title=Study of ram-air heat exchangers for reducing turbine cooling-air temperature of a supersonic aircraft turbojet engine |work=NACA Research Memorandum|date=1956|accessdate=2008-05-12|publisher=NASA]
work_institution = 1938 Aeronautical Research Institute (Braunschweig)
1945 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
1951 University of Minnesota (Regents Professor & professor emeritus)
alma_mater = German Institute of Technology (1927)
(Ph.D. - 1931)
doctoral_advisor =
doctoral_students = Regents Professor R. J. Goldstein
known_for = Eckert number
prizes = ASME Max Jakob medal (1961)
Fulbright Award (1962)
religion =
footnotes = married Josefine Binder (1931)

Dr Ernst R. G. Eckert was a scientist who advanced the film cooling technique for aeronautical engines. [NOTE: Dr. Eckert was reportedly involved with the development of the V1 flying bomb and the V2 rocket,Fact|date=May 2008 but the film cooling for the throat of the V-2 rocket motor was developed by other persons at Peenemünde. [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_V-2_test_launches&oldid=130850096] ] Eckert worked as a rocket and jet engine scientist at the Aeronautical Research Institute in Braunschweig, Germany, then via Operation Paperclip, began jet propulsion research in 1945 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. In 1951, Eckert joined the University of Minnesota in the department of mechanical engineering. Eckert published more than 550 scientific papers and books.

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