Llewellyn_M._K._Boelter--Robert_Rowe_Gilruth

Llewellyn Michael Kraus Boelter (August 7, 1898 – July 27, 1966) was an American engineer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and founding Dean of its UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.In the late 1920s Boelter came into prominence for by his work in the field heat transfer, for which he had investigated heat transfer in the automobile radiator of the tubular type. F. W. Dittus and Boelter proposed "a convective heat transfer correlation for turbulent flows," which became known as the Dittus-Boelter equation. In 1957 he was awarded the ASME Medal.