Son of Herman Leslie and Beulah McCORMACK Gordon L. Dugger, 63, former head of the aeronautics department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, died of cancer March 21 at the Washington Adventist Hospital.
Mr. Dugger had been on the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory since 1957 and had headed the aeronautics department from 1978 until last month. Before that, he was supervisor of the hypersonic propulsion group, which did research and development on ways of adding thrust to rockets.
A resident of Silver Spring, he was born in Winter Haven, Fla., and he graduated from the University of Florida. He received a doctorate in chemical engineering from what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines.
He worked at a predecessor agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cleveland and at the International Minerals and Chemical Corp. in Florida before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Mr. Dugger wrote more than 100 articles on combustion, hypersonic propulsion and energy conversion and he held patents in supersonic combustion engines.
In 1964, he received the Engineering Science Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences. He received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Papers from the Combustion Institute in 1970, and in 1986 he was made a senior fellow of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he had been vice president of publications and editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Louise Dugger of Silver Spring; one son, George L. Dugger of Rochester, Mich.; two daughters, Mary Susan Hansen and Barbara Ann Thornton, both of El Rito, N.M.; his mother, Beulah Dugger, one sister, Margaret Ann Wood, and one brother, Herman Gene Dugger, all of Winter Haven, and four grandchildren.
Mr. Dugger had been on the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory since 1957 and had headed the aeronautics department from 1978 until last month. Before that, he was supervisor of the hypersonic propulsion group, which did research and development on ways of adding thrust to rockets.
A resident of Silver Spring, he was born in Winter Haven, Fla., and he graduated from the University of Florida. He received a doctorate in chemical engineering from what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines.
He worked at a predecessor agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cleveland and at the International Minerals and Chemical Corp. in Florida before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Mr. Dugger wrote more than 100 articles on combustion, hypersonic propulsion and energy conversion and he held patents in supersonic combustion engines.
In 1964, he received the Engineering Science Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences. He received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Papers from the Combustion Institute in 1970, and in 1986 he was made a senior fellow of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he had been vice president of publications and editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Louise Dugger of Silver Spring; one son, George L. Dugger of Rochester, Mich.; two daughters, Mary Susan Hansen and Barbara Ann Thornton, both of El Rito, N.M.; his mother, Beulah Dugger, one sister, Margaret Ann Wood, and one brother, Herman Gene Dugger, all of Winter Haven, and four grandchildren.
Son of Herman Leslie and Beulah McCORMACK Gordon L. Dugger, 63, former head of the aeronautics department at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, died of cancer March 21 at the Washington Adventist Hospital.
Mr. Dugger had been on the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory since 1957 and had headed the aeronautics department from 1978 until last month. Before that, he was supervisor of the hypersonic propulsion group, which did research and development on ways of adding thrust to rockets.
A resident of Silver Spring, he was born in Winter Haven, Fla., and he graduated from the University of Florida. He received a doctorate in chemical engineering from what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines.
He worked at a predecessor agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cleveland and at the International Minerals and Chemical Corp. in Florida before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Mr. Dugger wrote more than 100 articles on combustion, hypersonic propulsion and energy conversion and he held patents in supersonic combustion engines.
In 1964, he received the Engineering Science Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences. He received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Papers from the Combustion Institute in 1970, and in 1986 he was made a senior fellow of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he had been vice president of publications and editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Louise Dugger of Silver Spring; one son, George L. Dugger of Rochester, Mich.; two daughters, Mary Susan Hansen and Barbara Ann Thornton, both of El Rito, N.M.; his mother, Beulah Dugger, one sister, Margaret Ann Wood, and one brother, Herman Gene Dugger, all of Winter Haven, and four grandchildren.
Mr. Dugger had been on the staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory since 1957 and had headed the aeronautics department from 1978 until last month. Before that, he was supervisor of the hypersonic propulsion group, which did research and development on ways of adding thrust to rockets.
A resident of Silver Spring, he was born in Winter Haven, Fla., and he graduated from the University of Florida. He received a doctorate in chemical engineering from what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. During World War II, he served in the Army in the Philippines.
He worked at a predecessor agency of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Cleveland and at the International Minerals and Chemical Corp. in Florida before joining the Applied Physics Laboratory.
Mr. Dugger wrote more than 100 articles on combustion, hypersonic propulsion and energy conversion and he held patents in supersonic combustion engines.
In 1964, he received the Engineering Science Award from the Washington Academy of Sciences. He received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Papers from the Combustion Institute in 1970, and in 1986 he was made a senior fellow of the Applied Physics Laboratory.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, where he had been vice president of publications and editor of the Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Louise Dugger of Silver Spring; one son, George L. Dugger of Rochester, Mich.; two daughters, Mary Susan Hansen and Barbara Ann Thornton, both of El Rito, N.M.; his mother, Beulah Dugger, one sister, Margaret Ann Wood, and one brother, Herman Gene Dugger, all of Winter Haven, and four grandchildren.
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