Szöllőskislaki Kármán Tódor
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Szöllőskislaki Kármán Tódor, better known as Theodore von Kármán, was a pioneering Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist renowned for his fundamental contributions to aerodynamics and fluid mechanics.
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| Szöllőskislaki Kármán Tódor canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
Hungarian-American
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aerospace engineer ⓘ human ⓘ physicist ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Theodore von Kármán NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Daniel Guggenheim Medal
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Franklin Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ Medal for Merit (United States) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Medal of Science ⓘ Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Timoshenko Medal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1881-05-11 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Budapest
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Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Hungary
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United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1963-05-06 ⓘ |
| diedIn |
Aachen
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West Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Ludwig Prandtl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
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Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
California Institute of Technology
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory NERFINISHED ⓘ RWTH Aachen University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Kármán NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
aerodynamics
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aerospace engineering ⓘ applied mathematics ⓘ fluid mechanics ⓘ |
| givenName | Tódor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonor |
crater Kármán on the Moon named after him
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von Kármán Medal of the American Geophysical Union named after him ⓘ von Kármán line named after him ⓘ |
| knownFor |
aeronautics and astronautics development
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boundary layer theory contributions ⓘ supersonic and hypersonic aerodynamics ⓘ theory of turbulence ⓘ von Kármán vortex street NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Royal Society ⓘ United States National Academy of Sciences NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Szöllőskislaki Kármán Tódor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| noblePredicate | von ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Wind and Beyond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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director of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at Caltech ⓘ first director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ⓘ |
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