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Hermann Julius Oberth

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hermann Julius Oberth 1894-1989, Austro-German astronautical pioneer, b. Hermannstadt, Austria-Hungary (now Sibiu, Romania). Beginning his studies in astronautics before World War I, he first proposed a liquid-propellant rocket in 1917 and in 1923 published his unsuccessful Ph.D. dissertation, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space, which discussed many aspects of rocket travel. He expanded this small pamphlet into a larger work, The Road to Space Travel (1929), which won wide recognition. During World War II he worked with Wernher von Braun in the German rocket program at Peenemünde;... Read more
Oberth, Hermann
Oberth, Hermann Austro-Hungarian Physicist 1894-1989 Hermann Julius Oberth, who was born on June 25...of an orbiting telescope. Oberth died in 1989 at the age...1979. Internet Resources Hermann Oberth: Father of Space Travel... Read more

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