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• Dr. Meredith Gourdine was born in Newark New Jersey on September 26, 1929.
• Meredith Gourdine attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and received a Ph.D. in Engineering Science from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
• Meredith Gourdine pioneered the research of electrogasdynamics.
• He also He held more than 40 patents for various inventions.
• The EGD Fog Dispersal System invented by Meredith Gourdine (USP # 4,671,807) has been used at Los Angeles and Ontario International Airports and by the Air Force since 1986.
  
• He then became a Senior Research Scientist at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1958-60 In 1964, he served on the President's Panel on Energy.
• Meredith Gourdine established a research laboratory, Gourdine Laboratories, in Livingston, New Jersey, with a staff of over 150.
• As an interesting side note, Meredith Gourdine won the silver medal in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki for the long jump. Meredith Gourdine is also blind.
  
• He died in Houston, Texas on November 20, 1998. Meredith Gourdine was serving as the president of Energy Innovation, Inc. of Houston, Texas at the time of his death.