Education
Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University.
He also held the distinction of being one of the first people to fly in a jet aircraft. Illinois Institute of Technology has a professorial position dedicated to Rettaliata, the John T. Rettaliata Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, currently occupied by Hassan M. Nagib. Rettaliata attended the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute magnet high school which enabled him to enter Johns Hopkins University as a sophomore in 1929.
He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in 1936.
Rettaliata died on August 8, 2009 at the age of 97.