Mark Vladimir Morkovin

Background

Morkovin, Mark Vladimir was born on July 28, 1917 in Prague, Czech Republic. Came to the United States, 1935.

Education

AB, University of Southern California, 1937; Master of Arts, Syracuse University, 1938; Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 1942.

Career

Instructor Michigan State University, 1941-1942. Rockefeller fellow Brown University, 1942-1943, instructor civil engineering, 1943. Research aerodynamicist Bell Aircraft Corporation, New York, 1943-1946, Office Naval Research, Washington, 1946-1947.

Assistant, associate professor aeronautical engineering University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1947-1951. Research scientist Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1951-1958. Principal staff scientist Research Department Baltimore Division Martin-Marietta Corporation, 1958-1967.

Professor Illinois Institute of Technology, 1967-1982, emeritus professor mechanical & aeronautical engineering, since 1982. Lecturer Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1951-1967. Consultant in field; member subcommittee high-speed aerodynamics National Advisory Committee Aeronautics, 1946-1949.

Member advisory research committee fluid dynamics National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1968-1970. Member United States Transition Study Group, 1975-1994. Senior exchange scientist with Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1979.

Guest lecturer Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1976, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1979.

Membership

Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fluids Engineering award 1987, assoc member Fluid Mech. Committee), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (First Fluid & Plamadynamics award 1976, member technical committee fluiddynamics 1973-1974), American Physical Society. Member Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Alva Heup, 1940. Children: Michael, Gregory.

Spouse:

Alva Heup

child:

Michael Morkovin

child:

Gregory Morkovin