Alan Lee Kistler

Background

Kistler, Alan Lee was born on November 26, 1928 in Laramie, Wyoming, United States. Son of John Cornelius and Lynn (Isaacson) Kistler.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Johns Hopkins, 1950. Master of Science in Aero, Johns Hopkins, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins, 1955.

Career

Research engineer jet propulsion laboratory California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, 1957-1961. Manager fluid physics section California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1965-1968. Associate professor mechanical engineering Yale, 1961-1965.

Director continuum mechanics laboratory Northrop Corporation, 1968-1969. Professor mechanical engineering Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, since 1969. Member fluid mechanics research advisory committee National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1966-1968.

Achievements

• Alan Lee Kistler has been listed as a noteworthy engineering educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1955-1957. Member American Physical Society, American Institute Aeronautics an Astronautics (technical committee fluid dynamics), American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Connections

Married Ingeborg Magdalene Busemann, May 15, 1955. Children– Stephen, Lynn, Eva.

Father:

John Cornelius Kistler

Mother:

Lynn (Isaacson) Kistler

Spouse:

Ingeborg Magdalene Busemann

child:

Stephen Kistler

child:

Eva Kistler

child:

Lynn Kistler