Samuel Jasper Loring (1914-1963) was an

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with Chance Vought and later

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who worked on various aspects of the aeroelastic flutter problem.

Biography

He was born in 1914 to Mabel A. (Cross) and Henry Delano Loring. He graduated from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

in 1936. He was awarded the

Wright Brothers Medal The Wright Brothers Medal was conceived of in 1924 by the Dayton Section of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the SAE established it in 1927 to recognize individuals who have made notable contributions in the engineering, design, developmen ...

in 1941 and the

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Admiral George W. Melville Medal in 1950.Melville Medal - Society Awards
. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He died in 1963.

References

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