aerodynamicist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aerodynamicist
First recorded in 1925–30; aerodynamic + -ist
Example Sentences
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Jaguar’s chief aerodynamicist Malcolm Sayer called the buttresses “sail panels.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
The team's technical director is Dan Fallows, an aerodynamicist who worked under Newey at Red Bull from 2006-21.
From BBC • Sep. 10, 2024
He worked at Boeing for 11 years as an aerodynamicist, first on the 767 and then on the highly successful 777 program.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2021
In addition to Wu, Einstein, Fermi, and Feynman, others include rocket scientist Robert Goddard, experimentalist Robert Millikan, aerodynamicist Theodore von Kármán, condensed matter theorist John Bardeen, and nuclear theorist Maria Goeppert Mayer.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 5, 2021
And last, but not least, the man from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a very famous aerodynamicist and of such professional stature that if he said the lights weren't airplanes they weren't.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.
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