David K. Stone: Hugh L. Dryden

Artist: David K. Stone
1922 - 2001
Nationality: American
Artwork Year: 1980
Image Size: 21 by 17.75 inches
Overall Size: 25.625 by 22.625 inches
Medium: Oil on Masonite

The youngest person to ever graduate from Baltimore High School was a brilliant mathematician named Hugh Latimer Dryden. After graduation, he entered John Hopkins University and, before he was eighteen, he had completed his bachelors degree. By the time he was twenty-two, Dryden had completed his doctorate and worked his way up to chief of the aerodynamics section of the National Bureau of Standards. In this position, he dedicated long hours to mastering the wind tunnel and before long had discovered the boundary layer phenomena that affect aerodynamics. During World War II, Dryden worked on the first guided missiles. And, when the war ended, he returned to civilian service as Director of Aeronautical Research for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Under his able leadership, NACA put America in the forefront of aviation. In July 1958, Congress created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. With NACA as the organization's core and Dryden as First Deputy Administrator, NASA began America's conquest of space.

This painting originally appeared on the Fleetwood® Hugh L. Dryden Commemorative Cover postmarked July 2, 1980.

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