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7 unusual facts about Theodore von Kármán


Arnold Air Force Base

A flight dynamics facility for testing aerospace designs at high speeds was built and dedicated to Dr. Theodore von Karman in 1959.

Edmund T. Allen

Theodore von Kármán intervened and recommended to Eddie Allen that the Boeing wind tunnel should be designed for airspeeds near the speed of sound.

Maurice Anthony Biot

He obtained his Ph.D. in Aeronautical Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1932 under Theodore von Kármán.

Northrop N-1M

Flight could only be sustained by maintaining a precise angle of attack, but Theodore von Kármán solved the problem by making adjustments to the trailing edges of the elevons.

Scientific Advisory Group

The Scientific Advisory Group of the United States Air Force, later renamed the Scientific Advisory Board, was established in 1944, when General Henry H. Arnold asked Dr. Theodore von Kármán to establish a group of scientists to review the techniques and research trends in aeronautics.

Surface layer

where \ z is the depth and \ k is known as the von Kármán constant.

Szőlőskislak

Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian-American aerospace engineer and physicist. Full name refers to the Kármán family of Szőllőskislak)


Apollo M. O. Smith

While at Caltech, he built and tested a number of rockets with Professor Theodore von Kármán's students Frank Malina, Edward Forman, Jack Parsons and Tsien Hsue-shen.

National Medal of Science

The first National Medal of Science was awarded on February 18, 1963, for the year 1962 by President John F. Kennedy to Theodore von Kármán for his work at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory.


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