Montgomery Knight

For basketball coach, see Bob Knight.

Montgomery Knight
Born(1901-02-22)February 22, 1901[1]
Holyoke, Massachusetts
DiedJuly 25, 1943(1943-07-25) (aged 42)[1][2][3]
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsAeronautical engineering
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia Tech Research Institute
Academic advisorsEdward P. Warner

Montgomery Knight (February 22, 1901 – July 25, 1943)[1] was an aeronautical engineer who specialized in rotary-wing aircraft. He was the first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

  1. ^ a b c Aeronautical Engineering Review. Vol. 2. Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences. 1943. p. 329. Archived from the original on September 23, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Annual Report, 1943-1944. University System of Georgia. 1944. p. 111. Archived from the original on September 23, 2022. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
  3. ^ Wallace, Robert (1969). Dress Her in WHITE and GOLD: A biography of Georgia Tech. Atlanta, Georgia: Georgia Tech Foundation. pp. 414–415.