Meredith Gourdine

Meredith Charles "Flash" Gourdine (September 26, 1929 – November 20, 1998) was an American athlete, engineer and physicist.

He earned a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell University in 1953, where he was selected for membership in the Quill and Dagger society.

[2] The companies developed engineering techniques to aid removing smoke from buildings and disperse fog from airport runways, and converting low-grade coal into inexpensive, transportable and high-voltage electrical energy.

[2] Gourdine was inducted to the Dayton, Ohio, Engineering and Science Hall of Fame in 1994,[3] was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991, was a member of the Black Inventors' Hall of Fame, a member of the Army Science Board, and served as a Trustee of Cornell University.

[5] He was involved in a number of civic groups during his career, including New York Mayor Lindsay's Task Force on Air Pollution, President Lyndon Johnson's Advisory Panel on Energy, and President Richard Nixon's Task Force on Small Business[1] At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, while he was still an undergraduate student at Cornell, he won a silver medal for the long jump, one and a half inch short of Jerome Biffle's gold medal jump.

Meredith Gourdine is featured in this USPTO film from 1989. Skip to 14:10 for the start of the section on Gourdine, which includes him speaking about his work on airport fog dispersal system, his time as an Olympian, and his work in the late 1980's.