Albert Francis Zahm

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Albert Francis Zahm was born at Lexington, Ohio, January 5th, 1862, and made his collegiate studies at Notre Dame University where he graduated in the Classical Course at the head of the class of 1883. Two years later he took the Master's Degree, and becoming deeply interested in aerial navigation, devoted himself to the study of that subject and its allied branches, especially shop-work, physics, and applied mathematics, which later subject he taught in that institution. He took the Degree of Master of Science at Notre Dame University in 1890, the Degree of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University in 1892, and was shortly after made Secretary of the International Conference on Aerial Navigation of 1893 which he inaugurated and carried to a successful issue with the cooperative of Mr. Octave Chanute. He studied physics at the Johns Hopkins University from February, 1893, to June, 1895, when he was made Associate Professor of Physics in the Catholic University of America, where he has continued to the present date.
Thesis (1898):
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https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/bitstream/handle/1774.2/32970/I136.PDF?sequence=1 (1898): ALBERT FRANCIS ZAHM, of Washington, D. C., A. M., University of
Notre Dame, 1885. Subjects: Physics, Mathematics, and Chemistry. Dissertation: Determination of the Resistance of the Air at Speeds of 200 to 500 Miles an Hour, with Notes on Two New Methods of Measuring Projectile Velocities inside and outside the Gun. Referees on dissertation: Professors Rowland, Ames, and Duncan
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