Dietrich Küchemann studied under Ludwig Prandtl at the University of Göttingen from 1930 until receiving his doctorate in 1936. He was a research scientist at the Aerodynamische Versuchs Anstalt Göttingen for ten years before joining the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough, and worked at the RAE in various scientific and leadership roles until his death in 1976.His early work with Dr. Johanna Weber, his lifelong scientific collaborator, helped usher in the jet age and resulted in the publication of Aerodynamics of Propulsion in 1953. His conception of and work on slender-wing supersonic aircraft strongly influenced the development of the Concorde.The founder and principal editor of Progress in Aeronautical Sciences (now Progress in Aerospace Sciences), he served on the AGARD Fluid Dynamics Panel and was chair from 1973 to 1975. In 1962 he was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's Silver Medal, in 1963 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 1964 was appointed a Commander of the British Empire, and in 1970 received the Ludwig Prandtl Ring.