biography
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Gibbs-Smith, Charles Harvard
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–81)
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| biography:
| Aeronautical historian, born in Teddington, Gloucestershire, SWC England, UK. He studied at Harvard, returning to England as instructor in aircraft recognition at the ministry of information during World War 2, where he developed a keen interest in the history of aeronautics. He wrote the definitive Aviation - an Historical Survey From its Origins to the End of World War 2 (1960) for the Science Museum, where he took up a research fellowship in 1976. He was appointed as the Smithsonian Institution's first Lindbergh professor of aerospace history at the Aerospace Museum, Washington, DC, in 1978. |
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