Recent Advances in Determination of Radiative Properties of Gases at High Temperatures

After receiving a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Physics from the District of Columbia Teachers' College, the author was employed by the Aerodynamics Section of the National Bureau of Standards. In 1947, he joined the Aerodynamics Department of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory where he carried out research in propulsion and high temperature gasdynamics. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Buffalo in 1955, and is currently head of the Aerophysics Laboratory, Aero physics Department, Space Technology Laboratories, Inc.