biography
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Keldysh, Mstislav (Vsevoldvich)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1911–78)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and space programme leader, born in Riga, Latvia. He studied at Moscow, and conducted aeronautical research at Zhukovskii Aero-Hydrodynamics Institute (from 1934) and at Steklow Mathematics Institute (from 1939). He was a leading figure in the development of the theory of rocketry and in the emergence of the USSR in space exploration. |
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