biography
| name: |
Oberth, Hermann (Julius)
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pronunciation:
[ohbairt]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1894–1989)
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| biography:
| Astrophysicist, born in Sibiu, Hungary. He studied in Munich, and abandoned a medical career for mathematics and astronomy. His first book, Die Rakete zu den Planetenrämen (1923, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space), established his reputation, and in 1928 he was elected president of the German Society for Space Travel. In World War 2 he worked at the experimental rocket centre at Peenemünde, and later assisted Wernher von Braun in developing space rockets in the USA (1955–61). He has been called ‘the father of German rocketry’. |
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