Hermann Oberth
1894
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1989
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Austria-Hungary, Romania, Germany
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: Babeș-Bolyai University
occupation: physicist, inventor, essayist, screenwriter, engineer, aerospace engineer
award received: Bavarian Order of Merit, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, Wilhelm Exner Medal, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin, Prix d'Astronautique, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz, International Space Hall of Fame
influenced by: Jules Verne
Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert Goddard and Herman Potočnik (also known under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung). Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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