Chieh-Chien Chang
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fluid mechanics, blood flow, solar wind, plasma physics and weather behavior
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(1913 - 2004)
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Chieh Chien Chang, 90, a Catholic University professor who was a leading expert on aeronautical engineering and simulated weather conditions, died July 5 of a heart ailment at a hospital in Houston. He had lived in Houston for the past five years.
Dr. Chang was chairman of the department of space science and applied physics at Catholic University from 1962 to 1974 and continued to serve as a professor until 1978. His specialties included fluid mechanics, blood flow, solar wind, plasma physics and weather behavior. He was featured in an article in Time magazine in 1966 for designing the first laboratory simulation of a tornado.
Dr. Chang was born in Beijing, where he began his academic and research career in the 1930s. He helped build China's first wind tunnel for designing aircraft. He fled China in 1937, just ahead of the Japanese occupation.
He came to the United States in 1940 as a scholarship student at California Institute of Technology, from which he received a doctorate in aeronautical engineering in 1950. During World War II, he worked for a research firm in New Rochelle, N.Y., and for Glenn L. Martin Aircraft in Baltimore, exploring the use of wood and lightweight materials in airplane design.
Dr. Chang was on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University from 1947 to 1952. After studying in England as a Guggenheim fellow, he taught at the University of Maryland in the 1953-54 school year. He was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota from 1954 to 1961.
After his retirement from Catholic University in 1978, Dr. Chang traveled frequently to China, collaborating with meteorologists to develop ways to control seasonal monsoons. He also was instrumental in improving the science curricula at Chinese universities, including his alma mater, Northeastern University in Shenyang.
In 1991, he played a role in freeing Marshal Chang Hsueh-Liang, a Chinese nationalist leader in the 1930s who had been under house arrest in Taiwan since 1948.
Dr. Chang lived in Silver Spring from 1962 until 1999, when he moved to Houston.
His wife of 64 years, Than Chie Chang, died in 2002.
Survivors include three children, Dr. William Chang of Cincinnati; Dr. David Chang of Houston; and Nancy Chang of New York; and four grandchildren.
Chang, Chieh-Chien The linearized wing theory of the supersonic flow with the Karman's Fourier integral method. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology (1950). doi:10.7907/67DX-1V06.
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