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Hermann Oberth

1894 - 1989

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Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈjuːli̯ʊs ˈoːbɛrt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard and Herman Potočnik (also known under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hermann Oberth has received more than 532,773 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Oberth is the 30th most popular engineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from Austria (down from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Austrian Engineer.

Hermann Oberth is most famous for his work in rocketry and spaceflight. He is credited with being the father of the space age.

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Over the past year Hermann Oberth has had the most page views in the with 72,100 views, followed by German (40,102), and Romanian (10,154). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Georgian (71.39%), Slovak (64.57%), and Malagasy (63.00%)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hermann Oberth ranks 30 out of 389. Before him are Artem Mikoyan, August Horch, Willy Messerschmitt, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Philo of Byzantium, and Lennart Torstensson. After him are Albert Göring, Theodore von Kármán, Emil Škoda, Hugo Junkers, Villard de Honnecourt, and Pavel Sukhoi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Hermann Oberth ranks 28. Before him are Alfred Kinsey, Satyendra Nath Bose, Heinrich Lübke, Alexander Oparin, Pyotr Kapitsa, and Otto Grotewohl. After him are Benjamin Graham, Kim Hyong-jik, Fyodor Tolbukhin, Arthur Nebe, Kōnosuke Matsushita, and Wilhelm Bittrich. Among people deceased in 1989, Hermann Oberth ranks 36. Before him are George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein, John Hicks, Joris Ivens, and Abdullah Yusuf Azzam. After him are Michel Aflaq, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Danilo Kiš, William Shockley, John Cassavetes, and Bruce Chatwin.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hermann Oberth ranks 172 out of 1,424. Before him are Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (1771), Maximilian III, Archduke of Austria (1558), Fritz Kreisler (1875), Bruno Bettelheim (1903), Lothar Rendulic (1887), and Anton Zeilinger (1945). After him are Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1718), Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857), Alfred Schütz (1899), Maria Mandl (1912), Josef Stefan (1835), and Alois Brunner (1912).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Hermann Oberth ranks 1. After him are Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Carlo Abarth (1908), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Hanns Hörbiger (1867), Béla Barényi (1907), Erwin Komenda (1904), and Hans Moravec (1948).

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