Theodore von Kármán (1881 to 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. Born in Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, he studied mechanical engineering at the Royal Joseph Technical University, earned his doctorate at the University of Göttingen under Ludwig Prandtl in 1908 and in 1913 became director of the Aeronautical Institute at RWTH Aachen. He made crucial advances in aerodynamics, notably for supersonic and hypersonic airflow, and the Kármán line that marks the threshold of outer space is named for him. In 1930 he became director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, and in 1944 he and colleagues from it founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician
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May 11, 1881
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist
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He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics
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was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics
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In 1930 he was invited for a position of a full-time director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at California Institute of Technology
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joined Ludwig Prandtl at the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1908
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He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow.
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