Johns Hopkins University
For some time there were few job prospects in Baltimore. Theodorsen took a job working on the third shift as an oiler at the Sparrows Point electrical generating plant located twenty miles from Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University advertised for an instructor in mechanical engineering. He obtained the position. His English was even then grammatically perfect and only slightly accented. He taught at Johns Hopkins for five years. In 1928, his university friend from Norway, Lars Onsager, came to teach at Johns Hopkins for one semester. It was at that time that Onsager suggested to Theodorsen that he obtain a doctorate in Physics.
Theodorsen's thesis dealt with thermodynamic and aerodynamic themes that were to permeate much of his later work, which was developed in two parts: 1) shock waves and explosions and 2) combustion and detonation. Through the urging of Dr. Joseph Ames, president of Johns Hopkins University and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA), Theodorsen came to NACA in 1929 as an associate physicist.
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