A female pioneer of aviation research
Mathematician Irmgard Flügge-Lotz died 50 years ago in May. She was one of the first female researchers in aeronautical engineering and worked at a predecessor organisation of today’s German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Göttingen. In the 1930s, she succeeded in making the […]