Overview
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Access Terms
Overview
Call Number: SC0597
Creator:
Flugge-Lotz, Irmgard.
Title: Irmgard Flugge-Lotz, collector, technical reports and papers
Dates: 1929-1984
Physical Description:
5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Administrative Information
Provenance
Custodial History
Administrative transfer from Engineering Library, 2000-2002.
Information about Access
None.
Ownership & Copyright
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
Cite As
[Identification of item], Irmgard Flugge-Lotz, Collector, Technical Reports and Papers (SC0597), Stanford University Archives,
Stanford, Calif.
Biography
Irmgard Flugge-Lotz was professor of engineering at Stanford from 1949 until her retirement in 1968. Born in Germany, Dr.
Flugge-Lotz earned her Doctor of Engineering degree at the Technical University of Hanover. She was head of the theoretical
department at Gottingen's Aerodynamics Research Center and a scientific adviser to German and French research institutes in
fluid mechanics before coming to Stanford.
Scope and Content
These reports and papers on aerodynamics are primarily in German, with a few in French, Italian, and English; research facilities
represented include Aeodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Gottingen and Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fur Luftfahrt in Berlin-Aldershof.
Most are published items but a few are typescript. Authors include Albert Betz, Wilhelm Flugge, Irmgard Flugge-Lotz, H. Goertler,
B. Goethert, Hermann Greinel, Alfred Hawranek, Karl Klotter, Hans Naumann, F. Riegels, F. Ringleb, G. Rossner, and Karl Wieghardt.
Collection also includes one folder, "Preisausschreiben 1941," containing correspondence among Flugge-Lotz, W. Tollmien, Dr.
Boje, L. Prandtl, and M. Kohler, 1941-43.
Access Terms
Aerodynamische Versuchsantalt Göttingen
Betz, Albert, 1885-
Deutsche Versuchsanstalt fur Luftfahrt, e. v., Berlin-Aldershof.
Flügge, Wilhelm, 1904-
Goertler, Heinrich, 1909-
Hawranek, Alfred, 1878-1951.
Klotter, Karl, 1901-
Naumann, Hans.
Prandtl, Ludwig, 1875-1953.
Tollmien, Walter, 1900-
Wieghardt, Karl, 1913-
Aerodynamics.