Daniel Bershader *48

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Daniel Bershader, a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics at Leland Stanford Univ. and a pioneer in the study of supersonic flight, died May 30, 1995. He was 77. Daniel was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1942. He served in the Navy and came to Princeton to earn his master's and PhD in physics (1946, 1948). After brief teaching periods at Princeton and at the Univ. of Maryland, Daniel accepted a joint appointment as manager of gas dynamics research for the Lockheed Corp. and as associate professor at Stanford Univ. He remained at Stanford for 37 years. He is survived by two sons and two step-sisters, to whom we extend our sincere condolences.

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