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Robert Esnault-Pelterie

1881 - 1957

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Robert Albert Charles Esnault-Pelterie (8 November 1881 – 6 December 1957) was a French aircraft designer and spaceflight theorist. He is referred to as being one of the founders of modern rocketry and astronautics, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the Germans Hermann Oberth, Wernher Von Braun and the American Robert H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Esnault-Pelterie has received more than 129,617 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Esnault-Pelterie is the 293rd most popular engineer (down from 267th in 2019), the 4,490th most popular biography from France (down from 4,046th in 2019) and the 54th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Robert Esnault-Pelterie ranks 293 out of 389. Before him are Frances Spence, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Peter Chen, Pavel Solovyov, Friedrich L. Bauer, and Pat Symonds. After him are William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, K. Eric Drexler, Hesham Qandil, Peter Schreyer, Yaakov Ziv, and Mal Evans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Robert Esnault-Pelterie ranks 177. Before him are Tommy Burns, Walter Krueger, Eugénie Cotton, Abram Deborin, Eleanor Farjeon, and Allauddin Khan. After him are Juan José de Amézaga, Gunnar Setterwall, Jim Bellamy, Alexandre Lippmann, Louella Parsons, and Kristian Prestrud. Among people deceased in 1957, Robert Esnault-Pelterie ranks 171. Before him are Walter Nausch, Carl Bonde, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Robert Lowie, Maurice McLoughlin, and Patrick Abercrombie. After him are Roger Vercel, Mikhail Gnessin, Wyndham Lewis, Carl Størmer, Percy Hobart, and Devdas Gandhi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Robert Esnault-Pelterie ranks 4,490 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger Planchon (1931), Raymond Depardon (1942), Robert Budzynski (1940), Jacques Barrot (1937), Victor Duruy (1811), and Aurélien Tchouaméni (2000). After him are Albert Préjean (1894), Eugène Martin (1915), Victoire Léodile Béra (1824), Jean de Sponde (1557), Claude Cheysson (1920), and Jacques Roubaud (1932).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Robert Esnault-Pelterie ranks 54. Before him are Jean-Augustin Barral (1819), Ernest Goüin (1815), Marcel Deprez (1843), Fulgence Bienvenüe (1852), Louis Pouzin (1931), and Pierre-François Bouchard (1771). After him are Charles Combes (1801), Louis Armand (1905), Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714), Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), Octave Chanute (1832), and Charles Joseph Minard (1781).

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