Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He was awarded the Wright Brothers Medal in 1937 for this work. He continued doing secret aerodynamics-related research work during World World War II, the results of which were later declassified. Rhode was born on 2 March 1904 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He received a Bachelor of Surgery in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1925.
After gradation he joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics as an aeronautical engineer at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. In 1949 he transferred to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Headquarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and became assistant director for research (aircraft construction and operating problems).
When National Aeronautics and Space Administration came into existence in 1958, he became assistant director for advanced design criteria in the space vehicle technology division. There, he was responsible for advanced technology supporting the development of space vehicles.
He died on 13 November 1994 in North Carolina.