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Oberth was a German scientist who is considered to be one of the founders of modern astronautics.
During World War I he drew up a design for a long-range, liquid-propellant rocket. The German War Ministry rejected it as fantasy. In 1922, Oberth's PhD dissertation on his rocket design was rejected by the University of Heidelberg.
He gained recognition when he published it in 1923 as Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ('The Rocket into Interplanetary Space'), which explained mathematically how rockets could achieve a speed that would allow them to escape Earth's gravitational pull.
In 1931, Oberth received a Romanian patent for a liquid-propellant rocket. His first rocket was launched on 7 May 1931, near Berlin.
In the 1930s, Oberth took on a young assistant who would later become one of the leading scientists in rocketry research for the German and then the United States governments: Werhner von Braun.
They worked together again during the Second World War, developing the V2 rocket, and again after the war, in the United States at the US Army’s Ballistic Missile A
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Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894 – December 28, 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German and Romanianphysicist, whose writings in the 1920s sparked a surge of interest in the subject of space flight. He was among the first to write about the use of liquid propellants in rocketry. Oberth participated in the development of the German V-2 rocket during World War II, and in the American space program after the war.
Biography
Early years
Oberth was the son of Dr. Julius Oberth, the head of a Saxon family in the city of Schäßburg (present-day Sighişoara), in Transylvania. On Oberth's tenth birthday, he was given a telescope, and this gift triggered some speculation on his part as to how one might travel to the moon. In high school, Oberth became fascinated with the field in which he was to make his mark through the writings of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, re-
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Hermann Oberth
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1894 - 1989
Hermann Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Oberth has received more than 592,791 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Oberth is the 30th most popular engineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Engineer.
Hermann Oberth is most famous for his work in rocketry and spaceflight. He is credited with being the father of the space age.
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Among engineers, Hermann Oberth ranks 30 out of 389. Before him are Artem Mikoyan, August Horch, Willy Me
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