Personal: Male. Born in USA.

Francis H. Clauser was a leading research aerodynamicist in academia and the aerospace industry until the 1970s. He worked with the Douglas Aircraft Co., 1937-1946, and served as chair of aerospace studies at the Johns Hopkins University, 1946-1960. From there he served in a variety of academic appointments, and from 1969 until retirement in 1980 as the Clark B. Millikin Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the California Institute of Technology.