Von Kármán was named as an Honorary Fellow of the Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC)
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Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics. He was responsible for crucial advances in aerodynamics characterizing supersonic and hypersonic airflow. The defined threshold of outer space is named the "Kármán line" in recognition of his work. Kármán is regarded as an outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of…
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science · Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963) · physicist · mathematician · military flight engineer · inventor · university teacher · Idist · astronomer · scientist · aerospace engineer · also Theodore von Kármán, Theodore von Karman, Kármán
Born 11 May 1881 · Died 6 May 1963 · Q164384
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1983· 2 entries
Was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio
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The Theodore von Kármán Award has been awarded annually by the International Academy of Astronautics to recognize outstanding lifetime achievements in any branch of science without limit of nationality or sex
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1977· 1 entry
RWTH Aachen University named its newly constructed main lecture hall complex "Kármán-Auditorium" in memory of von Kármán's outstanding research contributions at the university's Aeronautical Institute
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1968· 2 entries
Von Kármán was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame
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The Theodore von Kármán Prize has been awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics to recognize outstanding application of mathematics in mechanics or engineering
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1963· 3 entries
Died 1963-05-06.
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President Kennedy awarded von Kármán the National Medal of Science: "Dr
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Five days short of his 82nd birthday, and his body was returned to the United States to be entombed in the Beth Olam Mausoleum at what is now the Hollywood Forever Cemetery
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by Brown University (1961).
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Awarded Philosophiae doctor (Norway) presented by University of Bern (1961).
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1960· 2 entries
Won Goddard Gold Medal (1960).
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Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by New York University (1960).
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by Illinois Institute of Technology (1959).
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Awarded Doctor of Law (honorary) presented by Wayne State University (1959).
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1958· 2 entries
Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by University of Southern California (1958).
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Awarded honorary presidency presented by International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (1958).
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1957· 1 entry
Von Kármán became the first recipient of the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospac
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1956· 4 entries
Awarded Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring (1956).
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Won Medal of Freedom (1956).
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Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by Northwestern University (1956).
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Von Kármán founded a research institute in Sint-Genesius-Rode, Belgium, which is now named after him: the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
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1955· 3 entries
Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by ETH Zurich (1955).
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Awarded Department of the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service (1955).
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Won Daniel Guggenheim Medal (1955).
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1954· 2 entries
Won Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy (1954).
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Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by RWTH Aachen University (1953).
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1952· 3 entries
Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by Istanbul University (1952).
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Won Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society (1952).
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Career landmark: chairperson (1952–1963).
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1951· 2 entries
Awarded Doctor of Science (honorary) presented by Yale University (1951).
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Awarded honorary presidency presented by International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1951).
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1950· 2 entries
Won Kelvin Gold Medal (1950).
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Von Kármán received the ASME Thurston Lecture Award and delivered the first post-War ASME Thurston Lecture
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Aix-Marseille (1949).
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Career landmark: professor emeritus (1949).
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1948· 4 entries
Won Franklin Medal (1948).
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Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by Columbia University (1948).
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Won John Fritz Medal (1948).
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Von Kármán was awarded the Franklin Medal
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1947· 3 entries
Awarded Honorary doctor of the University of Liège (1947).
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Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by Princeton University (1947).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour presented by France (1947).
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1946· 4 entries
Won Medal for Merit (1946).
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Awarded Grand Médaille d'Honneur presented by Association des Ingénieurs-Docteurs des France (1946).
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Became the first chairman of the Scientific Advisory Group which studied aeronautical technologies for the United States Army Air Forces
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Career landmark: chairperson (1946–1955).
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1945· 1 entry
Awarded Meritorious Civilian Service Award presented by United States Army Air Forces (1945).
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1944· 1 entry
And others affiliated with GALCIT founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is now a federally funded research and development center managed and operated by Caltech under a contract from NASA
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1943· 1 entry
Awarded Doctor of Law (honorary) presented by University of California (1943).
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1941· 1 entry
Won ASME Medal presented by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1941).
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1940· 2 entries
Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by University of Liège (1940).
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Von Kármán was selected by John M
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1938· 1 entry
The American Philosophical Society in 1941, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Université libre de Bruxelles (1937).
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Won University of Liège Gold Medal presented by University of Liège (1937).
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1936· 1 entry
Von Kármán engaged the legal services of Andrew G
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1930· 4 entries
Career landmark: director (1930–1949).
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Was invited for a position of a full-time director of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at California Institute of Technology (GALCIT); his mother and sister, Josephine, also moved to California
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Kármán accepted the directorship of the Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology (GALCIT)
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Career landmark: university teacher (1930–1949).
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1929· 1 entry
Awarded Doctor of Engineering (honorary) presented by Technische Hochschule Berlin (1929).
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1926· 1 entry
Von Kármán was first invited to the US by the California Institute of Technology to build a wind tunnel
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1919· 1 entry
Returned to Aachen with his mother and sister Josephine
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1913· 1 entry
Accepted a position as director of the Aeronautical Institute at RWTH Aachen University, a leading German university
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1912· 2 entries
Career landmark: university teacher (1912–1930).
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Career landmark: director (1912–1930).
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1908· 2 entries
Career landmark: Privatdozent (1908–1912).
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Studied at University of Göttingen, Doctor of Philosophy (1906–1908).
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1907· 1 entry
Mór Kármán was ennobled, Theodore later described it:
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1906· 1 entry
Moved to the German Empire and joined Ludwig Prandtl at the University of Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1908, for his research on "mathematical models for the buckling of large structures"
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1902· 3 entries
With a degree in mechanical engineering, his thesis was "The motion of a heavy rod supported on its rounded end by a horizontal plane"
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Studied at Budapest University of Technology and Economics (1902).
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Career landmark: teacher (1902–1906).
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1881· 1 entry
Born 1881-05-11.
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