Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (born 1881)

Theodore von Kármán

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)

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 human-defined threshold of…