Propulsion Scientist William H. Avery Dies From: The Washington Post | Date: July 2, 2004| Author: Patricia Sullivan | Copyright 2004 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

William H. Avery, 91, a leading American rocket and ramjet propulsion research scientist who held patents for rocket propellants, a "people mover" walkway and a process for collecting energy from seawater, died of pneumonia and congestive heart failure June 26 at a retirement home in West Yarmouth, Mass.

He lived in Silver Spring from 1947 to 1996 while he worked at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel. Upon his retirement in 1989, the lab was named in his h...

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