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Kármán, Theodore Von

Born May 11, 1881, in Budapest; died May 7, 1963, in Aachen. Scientist in mechanics.

Kármán studied at the Royal Technical University of Budapest from 1898 to 1902 and later at the University of Gottingen. He became a professor and director of the Aeronautics Institute of the University of Aachen in 1913. From 1930 to 1949 he was the director of the Guggenheim Aeronautics Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology. Kármán’s works dealt with aircraft design, applied mathematics, the strength of materials, the theory of elasticity and plasticity, structural mechanics, aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, and thermodynamics. As a scientific leader he participated in the construction of many technical devices: aircraft, helicopters, rockets, and suspension bridges, as well as the first supersonic wind tunnels and ballistic installations. Kármán was a member of the Royal Society of London and other academies of science and scientific societies.

WORKS

Collected Works, vols. 1–4. London. 1956.
The Wind and Beyond: An Autobiography. Boston, 1967.

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It's been that way ever since Theodore von Karman served as the science advisor to Gen Hap Arnold, when the Air Force first became a separate service.

Good, clean science: top scientist directs research to save money and ... by Croxon, J. Paul / Airman

``I was writing a book on Theodore von Karman, the founder of JPL (the Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and one of the most important scientists of aeronautics in the 20th century, and Dryden's name kept coming up again and again,'' Gorn said.

HISTORIAN GIVES PHYSICIST HIS DUE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

Rosakis, chair of the Aerospace Historical Society, chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Caltech.

Two International Leaders Receive Caltech Aerospace Award by Business Wire