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Stanford S. Penner
Stanford S. Penner is a distinguished professor emeritus of engineering physics at the University of California, San Diego. During World War II, he worked at the Allegany Ballistic...view moreStanford S. Penner is a distinguished professor emeritus of engineering physics at the University of California, San Diego. During World War II, he worked at the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory in Cumberland, Maryland, on rocket developments before returning to the University of Wisconsin, Madison, to complete studies for the PhD in physical chemistry. He then worked briefly for Exxon before joining the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and then the faculty of the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor of Jet Propulsion before advancement to Associate and then Full Professor of Jet Propulsion. After about 10 years at Caltech, he transferred to the newly founded University of California at San Diego as chairman of the newly founded department of aerospace engineering while collaborating with the distinguished Chinese scientist and engineer H. S. Tsien (who is now celebrated as the developer of Chinese rocketry in China) and also with Th. von Karman who came to America at Caltech as head of aerospace engineering from the University of Aachen in Germany shortly before World War 2.
Penner is the author and coauthor of about four hundred research papers in the archival literature of aerospace engineering, of which more than twenty-five are mostly graduate textbooks on radiant heat transfer, rocketry, combustion, and propulsion for advance students in this field of research. He was the 2009 recipient of the National Academy of Engineering Founder’s award (awarded once per year to a singles recipient) and has received numerous awards for his research from various national and international academies and research prizes from US and foreign societies and honorary entities. His book on excessive human population growth is his inevitable conclusion that his subject will grow in importance until it will dominate the core concerns of thinking people everywhere a few hundred years in the future.view less