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John D. Anderson Jr.
Born	(1937-10-01)October 1, 1937 (age 87) Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Florida Ohio State University
Known for	Curator of Aerodynamics at theNational Air and Space Museum
Scientific career
Fields	Aerospace engineering
Institutions	Smithsonian Institution

John D. Anderson Jr. (born October 1, 1937) is the Curator of Aerodynamics at theNational Air and Space Museum at theSmithsonian Institution inWashington, D.C., Professor Emeritus in the Department ofAerospace Engineering at theUniversity of Maryland, College Park.^[1]

John D. Anderson Jr. was born on October 1, 1937, inLancaster, Pennsylvania. He enrolled at theUniversity of Florida inGainesville in approximately 1953. In 1959, he earned a bachelor's degree inAeronautical Engineering with high honors. In 1959, he was hired by theUnited States Air Force to become a Task Scientist at theAerospace Research Laboratory,Wright-Patterson Air Force Base inDayton, Ohio. He stayed in that position until 1962, when he enrolled atOhio State University inColumbus under fellowships from theNational Science Foundation andNASA. In 1966, Anderson earned hisPh.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from Ohio State. That same year, he joined the United StatesNaval Ordnance Laboratory inWhite Oak, Maryland, becoming the Chief of the Hypersonic Group.^[2]

In 1973, Anderson joined the faculty of theUniversity of Maryland, becoming Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He became Professor of Aerospace Engineering in 1980, serving in that capacity until 1999, when he retired and was namedprofessor emeritus. He also served as an affiliate member of the History Department at UMD. The John Anderson Scholarship Fund was established in Anderson's honor in 2000 by theA. James Clark School of Engineering jointly with the Department of Aerospace Engineering.^[3]

Anderson was elected as a member into theNational Academy of Engineering for aerospace engineering and history textbooks and for contributions to hypersonic gas dynamics.

He is currently the Curator of Aerodynamics at theSmithsonian Institution'sNational Air and Space Museum.

• Gas Dynamic Lasers: An Introduction,Academic Press (1976), and underMcGraw-Hill
• Introduction to Flight, McGraw-Hill, 1st edition (1978), 2nd edition, (1985), 3rd edition (1989), 4th edition (2000), 5th edition (2005), 6th edition (2008), 7th edition (2011), 8th edition (2015), 9th edition (2021)
• Modern Compressible Flow, McGraw-Hill, 1st edition (1982), 2nd edition (1990), 3rd edition (2002)
• Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 1st edition (1984), 2nd edition (1991), 3rd edition (2001), 4th edition (2006), 5th edition (2010), 6th edition (2017)
• Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics, 1st edition (1989), 2nd edition (2000), 2nd revised edition (2006), 3rd edition (2019)
• Computational Fluid Dynamics: The Basics with Applications, McGraw-Hill (1995)
• A History of Aerodynamics and Its Impact on Flying Machines,Cambridge University Press (1997)
• Aircraft Performance and Design, McGraw-Hill (1999)
• The Airplane: A History of Its Technology,American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2002)
• Inventing Flight: The Wright Brothers and Their Predecessors,Johns Hopkins University Press (2004)
• X-15: The World's Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space Age,Zenith Press (2014)

• Anderson, John D. Jr. (September 2004)."Breaking the Sound Barrier: The Aerodynamic Breakthroughs that Made It Possible"(PDF). Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on February 10, 2006. RetrievedDecember 24, 2022.

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