DEATHS

The Washington Post | December 31, 1989 | Copyright

HERMANN J. OBERTH

Rocket Scientist

Hermann Julius Oberth, 95, a pioneer of the space age who worked with Wernher von Braun to help develop Germany's V-2 rocket during World War II, died Dec. 29 at a hospital in Nuremberg, West Germany. The cause of death was not reported.

He began experiments on a conical jet motor for the German government in 1930 and developed a model later that year. He submitted a thesis on rocket experiments for his doctorate, which was turned down as too cursory. An expanded version was published in 1923 as the book "The Rockets to the Planets in Space." A third ...

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