Meredith Gourdine
Meredith Gourdine ( Meredith Charles Gourdine ; born September 26, 1929 in Newark , New Jersey , † November 20, 1998 in Houston ) was an American long jumper and engineer .
In 1952 he was US runner-up and won the national elimination match for the Olympic Games in Helsinki , where he won the silver medal with 7.53 m, four centimeters behind his compatriot Jerome Biffle . In 1953 he was US indoor champion.
In the same year he graduated from Cornell University . From 1958 to 1960 he worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory , and in 1960 he received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology . He started his own company called Gourdine Systems and was the author of 70 patents .
Web links
- Meredith C. Gourdine: Physicist, Engineer von Mitchell C. Brown in The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences
- Meredith C. Gourdine on the IEEE Global History Network
- Meredith Gourdine in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Gourdine, Meredith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gourdine, Meredith Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American long jumper and engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Newark , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1998 |
| Place of death | Houston |