Theodore von Karman

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:engineer
gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:physicist
gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Daniel_Guggenheim_Medal
gptkb:Franklin_Medal
gptkb:Légion_d'honneur
gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
gptkb:Order_of_the_Crown_of_Italy
gptkb:Timoshenko_Medal
gptkb:Order_of_Merit_of_the_Republic_of_Hungary
gptkbp:birthDate 1881-05-11
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Budapest,_Austria-Hungary
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:Hungary
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:deathDate 1963-05-06
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Aachen,_West_Germany
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Ludwig_Prandtl
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkb:Royal_Joseph_Technical_University
gptkbp:employer gptkb:California_Institute_of_Technology
gptkb:Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory
gptkb:Aachen_University
gptkbp:field aeronautics
applied mathematics
engineering
fluid dynamics
gptkbp:honor Crater Karman on the Moon named after him
Kármán line named after him
Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics named after him
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Theodore von Karman
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Frank_J._Malina
gptkb:H._S._Tsien
gptkb:Hans_Liepmann
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Felix_Klein
gptkb:Ludwig_Prandtl
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Kármán_vortex_street
aerodynamics
founding Jet Propulsion Laboratory
supersonic and hypersonic airflow
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
gptkb:Hungarian_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
Hungarian
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Frank_J._Malina
gptkb:H._S._Tsien
gptkb:Hans_Liepmann
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Kármán_vortex_street
gptkb:Mathematical_Methods_in_Engineering
gptkb:The_Wind_and_Beyond
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Pasadena,_California
gptkbp:spouse none
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Theodore_von_Karman_Medal
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6