His article, "Who was the First Person to Fly in a Glider" is included in the February 2016 issue of Soaring magazine.
CLEVELAND, OH, July 21, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- MARQUIS Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name Jack Wilson, Ph.D. a lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, Dr. Wilson celebrates many years' accomplishment in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Wilson is an aeronautical engineer who has dedicated over four decades to the advancement of aeronautical science. After obtaining a pilot's license in the Air Training Corps, he flew as a pilot with the Royal Air Force (RAF) Volunteer Reserve, and the University of London Air Squadron from 1950 to 1954, before finding his way into research across the Atlantic. He is an FAA certified pilot with commercial glider and single engine power ratings, and has been a glider instructor, and avid proponent of aviation.
Born to George and Nellie Wilson in 1933, Dr. Wilson grew up in Sheffield, in the county of Yorkshire in northern England. He attended Imperial College in London, earning a Bachelor of Science (engineering) degree with second class honors. In 1956 he came to the United States to attend Cornell University, where he received a Master of Aeronautical Engineering degree as well as a Ph.D. Dr. Wilson served briefly at the Royal Aircraft Establishment research facility in Farnborough, England, before returning to the U.S. as a principal research scientist at the Avco-Everett Research Laboratory in Massachusetts. He served there for nine years before sampling academia as a visiting professor at the Institut de Mecanique des Fluides at Marseille, France.
Dr. Wilson's heart was in research, however, and he devoted the next seven years to research at the University of Rochester in New York. In 1980, he joined Sohio/BP in Cleveland as a senior research associate, where he worked for ten years. Later, Dr. Wilson worked at the NASA Glenn Research Center as a senior engineering specialist for a series of engineering firms, notably the QSS Group from 2001 to 2006, and the ASRC Aerospace Corporation from 2006 to 2010. Over the course of his research career, he has worked on a number of projects, including measurement of the air ionization rate at shock speeds greater than 10km/sec, the recombination rate of oxygen atoms, corona discharge and ionic wind properties, wave rotor performance, unsteady ejector thrust augmentation, and the development of antimony dopant sources. He was the first to apply high speed flow to lasers, and to demonstrate the gas-dynamic laser experimentally. This latter laser was subsequently engineered to produce a continuous laser power of over 100 KiloWatts.
Dr. Wilson's work can be found in many professional journals, and in chapters he has contributed to books, including "Gas Lasers" in "Applied Optics in Engineering VI", and "Laser Sources" in Techniques in Chemistry XVII". His article, "Who was the First Person to Fly in a Glider" is included in the February 2016 issue of Soaring magazine.
Showing an artistic side to their personalities, Dr. Wilson and his wife Dr. Caro Blixen, served as docents, leading tours at the Cleveland Museum of Art from 2009 to 2015. In 1998 Dr. Wilson qualified for the Soaring Gold Badge of the Federation Aeronautical International. In 1995, he, jointly with Dr. Daniel Paxson, was awarded the Manly Memorial Medal of the Society of Automotive Engineers, and in 2001 was elected an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. For a life dedicated to scientific research, Dr. Wilson was selected for inclusion in numerous volumes of Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in the Midwest, and Who's Who in the World.
In recognition of outstanding contributions in his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. Wilson has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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