Malina, Frank J.
Frank J. Malina papers, 1930-1986.
Correspondence, reports, research and subject files, writings, biographical material, and other papers chiefly documenting Frank J. Malina's career as an aerospace engineer at the California Institute of Technology and later as director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His subsequent career in kinetic art in Paris is also documented.
Aerospace pioneer and scientist. Co-founder of the Guggenheim Aeronautics Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT) rocket research project, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, with Theodore von Kar m̀, and acting director of the Lab from 1944-1946. Malina moved to Paris in 1947, where he continued to be active in international astronautical affairs while working as a kinetic artist, and later founding and editing the journal Leonardo.
Malina, Frank J. -- Family.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (U.S.)
Aeronautics.
Aerospace engineering
Art and science.
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