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Black and white photo of Irmgard Flügge-Lotz. She is wearing a polkadot blouse with a wide collar and a dark jacker, and looking at the camera. The blackboard behind her shows flow lines around an oblong object, and she is holding a similarly shaped object in her hand. It appears to be a smooth stone.

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Black and white photo of Irmgard Flügge-Lotz. She is wearing a polkadot blouse with a wide collar and a dark jacker, and looking at the camera. The blackboard behind her shows flow lines around an oblong object, and she is holding a similarly shaped object in her hand. It appears to be a smooth stone.
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 02:52:26 JST Robert McNees

Aerodynamics engineer and mathematician Irmgard Flügge-Lotz was born #OTD in 1903.
She advanced the understanding of aerodynamic pressure on wings and turbine blades, pioneered the theory of discontinuous control systems, and was the first woman named full professor of engineering at Stanford.

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