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ROBERT T JONES 1910-1999 BY WALTER G VINCENTI ROBERT THOMAS JONES one of the premier theoretical aeroclynamicists of the twentieth century, died on August 11, 1999, aged eighty-nine, at his home in Los Altos Hills, California.
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R.T. also attended night classes taught at Catholic University by the brilliant but difficult German theoretical aerodynamicist, Max M
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had made his discovery. Because of objections by Langley's eminent senior theoretical aerodynamicist, who did not believe the result possible in the supersonic speed range, NAGA management held up publication of the findings until confirmed by experiment.
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In his spare time in the 1950s, he devised and constructed an improvement on a type of reflecting telescope and published a number of related articles. In this connection, he formed and operated an instrument company that produced and sold some 40 six- and eight-inch telescopes of this kind.
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ROBERT T JONES 149 of us privileged to call him a colleague .
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