Sheila Widnall

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  6. Widnall, Sheila E. (1961). Boundary layer stability over flexible surfaces (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  7. Widnall, Sheila E. (1964). Unsteady loads on hydrofoils including free surface effects and cavitation (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautical Engineering. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
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  15. "NAE announces award winners John Casani and Sheila Widnall". 1 October 2009.
  16. Sheila Widnall introduces her husband William to give MIT lecture on Apollo (video)
  17. Sheila E. Widnall Facts - biography
  18. Pierrehumbert, Raymond; Widnall, Sheila (1982). "The Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Instabilities of a Spatially Periodic Shear Layer". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 114: 59–82. doi:10.1017/s0022112082000044. S2CID   122846528.

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Sheila Widnall
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18th United States Secretary of the Air Force
In office
August 6, 1993 October 31, 1997
Military offices
Preceded by Secretary of the Air Force
1993–1997
Succeeded by