Monday, January 14, 2013

Ronald Probstein wins 2013 AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) has announced that the 2013 AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award has been won by Ronald F. Probstein, professor emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brookline, Mass. Probstein is being honored for his “Seminal contributions to hypersonics, synthetic fuels, water purification, and phsysicochemical hydrodynamics.” Dr. Probstein's most recent work is Honest Sid: Memoir of a Gambling Man, a story of bookies and bettors, fighters and fixers, players and suckers set against the often-romanticized backdrop of Depression-era New York. Click here for more information on the Pendray Award.