The department attracted a number of prominent academics including Ronald Coase, Gordon Tullock, Alexandre Kafka, George Stigler, and Leland B. Yeager.
He temporarily served as the Vice President of the Interlingua Institute from 1997 to 1998 after Deanna Hammond died.
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Gardner AAF is historically significant as Brigadier General Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager first learned how to fly an airplane there.
After his death in 1951, he was buried in the cemetery of the Church of St. James the Less in Philadelphia.
On December 14, most of the American diplomatic corps still in Germany, including Morris and Kennan, were detained by German authorities and held at a former resort near Bad Nauheim.
The 2006 recipient was retired Air Force Brigadier General Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager for his pioneering efforts in aeronautics with the Bell X-1 rocket-powered flights of the late 1940s and early 1950s.