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Date of Birth
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11-May-1881
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Place of Birth
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Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
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Nationality
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Hungary, United States of America, Germany
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Profession
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Physicist, Scientist, Aerospace Engineer, Engineer, Aerospace Engineering
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Theodore von Kármán was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics and astronautics. He is responsible for many key advances in aerodynamics, notably his work on supersonic and hypersonic airflow characterization. He is regarded as the outstanding aerodynamic theoretician of the twentieth century.
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