Max Munk

Max Michael Munk (October 22, 1890 – June 3, 1986)[1] was a German aerospace engineer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in the 1920s and made contributions to the design of airfoils.

Munk earned an engineering degree from the Hannover Polytechnic School in 1914 and doctorates in both physics and mathematics from the University of Göttingen in 1918 with a dissertation on parametric studies of airfoils under Ludwig Prandtl.

[2] After World War I, NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics which become NASA in 1958) brought Munk to the United States.

President Woodrow Wilson signed orders allowing Munk to come to the United States and work in government.

Munk began work at NACA in 1920 and proposed building the new Variable Density Tunnel (VDT)[3] which went into operation in 1922.