biography
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Tsiolkovsky, Konstantin Eduardovich
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pronunciation:
[tseeolkofskee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1935)
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| biography:
| Russian physicist and rocketry pioneer, born in Izhevsk, W Russia. Self-educated, and handicapped by deafness from the age of 10, his visionary ideas on the use of rockets for space exploration were published in 1903. From 1911 he developed the basic theory of rocketry and multi-stage rocket technology (1929). Much earlier (1881), unaware of Maxwell's work, he independently developed the kinetic theory of gases. |
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