Background
Bogdonoff, Seymour Moses was born on January 10, 1921 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Glenn and Kate (Cohen) Bogdonoff.
Bogdonoff, Seymour Moses was born on January 10, 1921 in New York City, New York, United States. Son of Glenn and Kate (Cohen) Bogdonoff.
Bachelor of Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1942. Master of Science, Princeton University, 1948.
Assistant section head fluid and gas dynamics section, Langley Memorial Aero. Laboratory, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 1942-1946;
research associate aero engineering department, Princeton University, 1946-1953;
associate professor, Princeton University, 1953-1957;
professor, Princeton University, 1957-1963;
Henry Porter Patterson professor aero engineering, Princeton University, 1963-1989;
professor emeritus and senior research scholar, Princeton University, since 1989;
department chairman mechanic and aerospace engineering, Princeton University, 1974-1983;
head gas dynamics laboratory, James Forrestal Research Campus, Princeton University
senior research scholar, James Forrestal Research Campus, Princeton University, since 1989. Consultant aero engineer.
Member of advisory council National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Member science advisory board Department Air Force, 1958-1976, 80-84. Von Karman Memorial lecturer, Israel, 1992.
Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (director, Fluid and Plasma Dynamics award 1983, Hugh L. Dryden lecturer in research 1990). Member National Academy of Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society, International Academy Astronautics of International Astronautical Federation (correspondent), French National Academy of Air and Space (honorary), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi.
Married Harriet Eisenberg, October 1, 1944. Children: Sondra Sue, Zelda Lynn, Alan Charles.