doctoral_advisor death_place death_date birth_place citizenship field work_institutions birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
joseph h. keenan jamaica plain , boston , massachusetts november 26 , 2004 brooklyn , new york usa mechanical engineering biomedical engineering massachusetts institute of technology may 20 , 1916 compressible flow and biomechanics jamaica plain , boston , massachusetts drucker medal -lrb- 1999 -rrb- ascher h. shapiro
 ascher h. shapiro massachusetts -lrb- sc.d. , 1946 -rrb- institute of technology -lrb- sc.b. , 1938 -rrb-
ascher h. shapiro

ascher h. shapiro -lrb- born : may 20 , 1916 in brooklyn , new york -- died : november 26 , 2004 at jamaica plain , boston , massachusetts -rrb- was a professor of mechanical engineering at mit .
he grew up in new york city .
he earned his s.b. in 1938 and an sc.d .
in 1946 in the field of mechanical engineering at the massachusetts institute of technology .
he was appointed assistant professor at mit in 1943 where he taught fluid mechanics .
he was ford professor from 1962 to 1975 and an institute professor from 1975 until he became emeritus institute professor in 1986 .
he was chair of the institute 's faculty in 1964-1965 and head of the department of mechanical engineering from 1965 to 1974 .
a prolific author of texts in his field , his two-volume treatise , `` the dynamics and thermodynamics of compressible fluid flow '' , published in 1953 and 1954 , is considered a classic .
his 1961 book `` shape and flow : the fluid dynamics of drag '' explained boundary layer phenomena and drag in simple , non-mathematical terms .
in the 1960s , he began to conduct research in fluid flow in the body .
in 1961 , he founded the national council for fluid mechanics films -lrb- ncfmf -rrb- in cooperation with the educational development center .
the ncfmf released a series of 39 films , which have since then been widely used in the teaching of fluid mechanics -lsb- http://web.mit.edu/hml/ncfmf.html .
he was elected to american academy of arts and sciences in 1952 , the national academy of science in 1967 , and national academy of engineering in 1974 .
he was awarded the benjamin garver lamme award by the american society of engineering education in 1977 .
he was awarded the fluids engineering award in 1977 and the drucker medal in 1999 by the american society of mechanical engineers .
he was awarded honorary doctor of science in 1978 by the university of salford and in 1985 by the technion .
