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The six James S. McDonnell
Distinguished University Professorships at Princeton University were established by a gift from the James S. McDonnell Foundation in memory of James S. McDonnell. Among the Princeton faculty members who have held the professorship are
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Calling All the Team,” published by Sanford N. McDonnell, St. Louis, MO, 1999.
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and which offered a $ 100,000 prize for the winning entry. His design was the
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series of launch vehicles. The new combined company also developed the
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639:McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences.
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380:McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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667:"Professorships | Dean of the Faculty"
362:on August 22, 1980. He was buried in
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112:NAS Award in Aeronautical Engineering
91:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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506:Tin Goose the fabulous Ford trimotor
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221:McDonnell resigned from Martin in
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330:National Academy of Sciences
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187:Huff Daland Airplane Company
806:Princeton University alumni
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127:James Smith "Mac" McDonnell
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781:Collier Trophy recipients
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475:"Boeing Bio of McDonnell"
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565:Doodle Bug
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311:F-15 Eagle
303:California
289:to create
268:Astronaut
204:Doodle Bug
153:Early life
700:27 August
695:wustl.edu
561:Doodlebug
527:27 August
480:27 August
455:in 1977.
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339:in 1980.
328:from the
247:U.S. Navy
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545:Archived
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131:aviation
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