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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 11 > Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz helped the space program

Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz helped the space program

By Dennis Overbye / The Bulletin
December 11, 2008

Arthur Kantrowitz, a physicist and engineer whose research on the behavior of superhot gases and fluid dynamics led to nose cones for rockets, heart-assist pumps and the idea of nuclear fusion in magnetic bottles, among many other things, died in New York on Nov. 29. He was 95.

His death was....

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