Meredith gourdine parents

Meredith gourdine catalytic converter
Meredith gourdine wife
Meredith gourdine family

•

Meredith Gourdine

For over thirty years, Meredith C. Gourdine was a pioneer researcher and inventor in the field of electrogasdynamics.

Gourdine was born in Newark, New Jersey. He ran track while attending Cornell University and won a silver medal in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympic Games in 1952. His academic curriculum centered on Engineering Physics, in which he earned a BS from Cornell in 1953 and a PhD from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) in 1960. In his last three years at CalTech, Gourdine was already Senior Research Scientist at their Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Gourdine was one of the first, and remains one of the most respected scientists in electrogasdynamics, which is the generation of energy from the motion of gas molecules that have been ionized (electrically charged) under high pressure. Gourdine's specialty was to invent very practical applications for this rather abstruse procedure.

Gourdine is best known for his invention of various electrostatic precipitator systems (first patents granted in 1971-1973), including "Incinerai

•

In 1991 Gourdne was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and in 1994 he was inducted to Engineeering and Science Hall of Fame (Dayton, Ohio). Dr. Gourdine when died he was the president of Energy Innovation, Inc. of Houston, Texas.

Dr. Gourdine is inventor of Focus Flow Heat Sink, used for computer chip cooling.

NAME: Meredith Gourdine
SECTION: Section B; Page 10; Column 4; Sports Desk
LENGTH: 512 words
HEADLINE: Meredith Gourdine, 69, Athlete and Physicist
BYLINE: By FRANK LITSKY
Meredith (Flash) Gourdine, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist in the long jump and later an engineer and physicist with 70 patents that deal with thermal management and the conversion of gas to electricity, died Friday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Houston. He was 69.

The cause of death was complications from multiple strokes, said his son, Meredith Jr. He had also been suffering from diabetes and had gradually lost his sight.

Gourdine's success in track and field was m

•

Gourdine, Meredith C.

Physicist, engineer

Before Meredith "Flash" Gourdine became a world-renown engineer and physicist, he was a silver medalist in the 1952 Olympic Games. Ultimately better known for his work in thermal management technology than for his 24-foot long jump, he specialized in research relating to electrogasdynamics, which is a method used to disperse fog and smoke. Other applications of electrogasdynamics include refrigeration, desalination of seawater, and pollutant reduction in smoke. The companies he founded worked on purifying the air and converting low-grade coal into inexpensive, transportable, and high-voltage electrical energy. They produced a commercial air-pollution deterrent, a high-powered industrial paint spray, and a device to eliminate fog above airports. He died in 1998 with seventy patents to his name.

Gourdine was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 26, 1929. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where his father was a painter and a janitor. After school at Brooklyn Tech High School, he worked eight hours a day on painting jobs with his