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American fluid dynamicist (1927 – 1984)

Richard Clyde DiPrima (1927 to 1984) was a professor of applied mechanics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, specializing in hydrodynamic stability and lubrication theory.

DiPrima studied at Carnegie Mellon University attaining B.A. M.S. and Ph.D. there. He wrote his thesis under George H. Handelman.^[1]

He continued his studies, first at MIT with C. C. Lin, and then for two years at Harvard with Bernard Budiansky and George Carrier.

In Boston he married Maureen.

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DiPrima was employed at Hughes Aircraft for a year in their laboratory.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute acquired his services in 1957; he was promoted to associate professor in 1959.^[2] He was made a full professor in 1962.

From 1972 to 1981 he served as chair of the department of mathematical sciences. He joined William E. Boyce to write Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems, a textbook that is now in its elev