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Hermann Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.
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science · Austro-Hungarian German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894–1989) · physicist · inventor · essayist · screenwriter · engineer · military flight engineer · physician · mathematician · also Hermann Oberth, Hermann Julius Oberth, Oberth
Born 25 June 1894 · Died 28 December 1989 · Q78503
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 3 entries
T3N: Der Visionär, der die Raumfahrt möglich machte: Das ist Hermann Oberth
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Elektronik Net: Wie Hermann Oberth Planetenträume wahr machte
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The space mirror devised by Oberth is categorized within the field of Climate Engineering, specifically under Solar Radiation Management (SRM) as a subset of Space-Mirrors
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2019· 3 entries
heise online: Zahlen, bitte! Die 11.200 Meter des Hermann Oberth
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Deutschlandfunk: Hermann Oberth vor 125 Jahren geboren
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Deutschlandfunk: Hermann Oberth vor 125 Jahren geborenDer Raketenvisionär aus Siebenbürgen
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1994· 1 entry
A memorial house was established in Mediaș on the 100th anniversary of his birth
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1989· 2 entries
Died 1989-12-28.
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“Space-based Solar Shield to Offset Greenhouse Effect”
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1980· 1 entry
Oberth was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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1978· 1 entry
Suggested that the realization of this concept could occur between 2018 and 2038
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1976· 1 entry
Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1976).
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1969· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1969).
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1961· 1 entry
Oberth returned to the United States, where he worked for the Convair Corporation as a technical consultant for the Atlas missile program
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1958· 1 entry
Oberth returned to Feucht, Germany, where he published his ideas for a lunar exploration vehicle, a "moon catapult", and "damped" helicopters and airplanes
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille (1954).
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“It is my thesis that flying saucers are real, and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries”
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1953· 1 entry
Oberth returned to Feucht, Germany, to publish his book Menschen im Weltraum (Man into Space), in which he described his ideas for space-based reflecting telescopes, space stations, electric-powered spaceships, and space
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1948· 1 entry
And worked there as a scientific consultant and an author for the specialist journal Interavia
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1944· 1 entry
In an accidental explosion at the Redl-Zipf V-2 rocket engine test facility and liquid oxygen plant where she worked as a rocket technician
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1929· 3 entries
Oberth won the inaugural Prix REP-Hirsch (REP-Hirsch Award) from the French Astronomical Society
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And 1930 — as a high school teacher for physics and mathematics in his home region, Transylvania in Romania
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By the space pioneer Hermann Oberth in his work Ways to Spaceflight, which is referred to as the "Bible of Space Technology", in which he describes for the first time the physics, the function, the construction and the u
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1927· 2 entries
Awarded Prix d'Astronautique (1927).
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A member of the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR) – the "Spaceflight Society" – an amateur rocketry group that had taken great inspiration from his book, and Oberth acted as something of a mentor to the enthusiasts who joi
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1925· 1 entry
And it was also sold out after a short time
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1923· 3 entries
With 100 bis 300 km in diameter in Earth orbit, with which, among other things, the weather is to be influenced in a targeted regional manner or the solar radiation is to be weakened in a targeted regional manner
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Oberth initially outlined the concept of his space mirrors in his book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (The Rocket to Interplanetary Space)
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Oberth's book The Rocket to the Planetary Spaces was published
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1922· 1 entry
Oberth's doctoral dissertation on rocket science was rejected as "utopian"
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1919· 1 entry
Oberth once again moved to Germany, this time to study physics, initially in Munich and later at the University of Göttingen
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1915· 1 entry
Oberth was moved into a medical unit at a hospital in Segesvár (German: Schäßburg; Romanian: Sighișoara), Transylvania, in Austria-Hungary (Romania)
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1912· 1 entry
Oberth began studying medicine in Munich, Germany, but after World War I broke out, he was drafted into the Imperial German Army, assigned to an infantry battalion, and sent to the Eastern Front against Russia
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1894· 1 entry
Born 1894-06-25.
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