Authors

Thomas R. Brogan received the degree of Bachelor of Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1955. During his undergraduate years his summers were devoted to rocket engine instability studies at Boeing Airplane Company and the development of induction heating apparatus for Westinghouse Corporation. He received the Master of Aeronautical Engineering degree from Cornell in 1956, after which he joined the staff of the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory. His first effort there involved a study of the one-dimensional flow of an ionized gas in a magnetic field by the use of a shock tube.