Hermann Oberth Biography

Hermann Oberth biography

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NAME: Hermann Julius Oberth
OCCUPATION: Physicist
BIRTH DATE: June 25, 1894
DEATH DATE: December 28, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH: Sibiu, Romania

PLACE OF DEATH: Nuremberg, Germany

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Hermann Oberth has been called "the father of German rocketry." He assisted Wernher von Braun in the 1950s in developing space rockets for the United States.

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Hermann Oberth was an astrophysicist born in Romania in 1894. He has been called "the father of German rocketry." His first book (1923, translated as, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space) firmly established his reputation. He served as the president of the German Society for Space Travel in 1928, and later assisted Wernher von Braun during the development of space rockets for the United States.

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Astrophysicist, born in Sibiu, Romania. He studied in Munich, and abandoned a medical career for mathematics and astronomy. His first book, Die Rakete zu den Planetenrmen (1923, The Rocket into Interplanetary Space), established his reputation, and in 1928 he was elected president of the German Society for Space Travel. In World War 2 he worked at the experimental rocket centre at Peenemnde, and later assisted Wernher von Braun in developing space rockets in the USA (1955??61). He has been called ??the father of German rocketry??.