Nancy Burr Deloye Fitzroy (October 5, 1927 – January 15, 2024) was an American engineer specializing in heat transfer and fluid dynamics.
[1] Born Nancy Burr Deloye in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, she became the first female student to study chemical engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1949.
[2] In 1952, she became a development engineer for General Electric, initially working on the Hermes Missile Program[3] and designing heat transfer surfaces for nuclear reactor cores.
In 1965 she was a heat transfer consultant with the Research and Development Center, working on gas turbines, space satellites and other technologies.
[3] She was appointed editor of the GE heat transfer and fluid flow data books, a reference work that was made available by subscription to engineers world-wide beginning in 1970.