Friday, March 27, 2009

How many living scientists do you know

who haven't died yet?

Prof. R who teaches my aeroelasticity and vibrations class is from Israel and speaks English with an accent. The accent isn't bad (though I could have sworn he was talking about a generalized mess instead of a generalized mass...it so confused me). But he has...interesting ways of expressing things.

Today, we heard a brief tangent lecture (that's a lecture on something not directly related to the topic at hand) about Dr. Theodore Theodorsen, a great aerodynamicist who doesn't get as much recognition as he should.

The best part was when Dr. Theodore Theodorsen was descibed as a living scientist of his time. And yes, he is dead now. But he was a living scientist when he was still alive. And now I'm wondering what he would have done if he had been a dead scientist of his time...



P.s. Theodore Theodorsen really is the guy's name.

2 comments:

Carla said...

That made me laugh! I don't know what he would have done had he been a dead scientist of his time, but it probably would have involved making a generalized mess.

Homemanager said...

Ha! That is funny! :-D
Also, a very interesting name, indeed...