Physicist

Robert H. Goddard

1882 - 1945

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His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2024). Robert H. Goddard is the 218th most popular physicist (down from 192nd in 2024), the 817th most popular biography from United States (down from 714th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular American Physicist.

Robert H. Goddard is most famous for his contributions to the development of modern rocketry. He was the first person to create and launch a liquid-fueled rocket.

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Among Physicists

Among physicists, Robert H. Goddard ranks 218 out of 851Before him are David Lee, Pyotr Kapitsa, Yoichiro Nambu, Joseph Rotblat, Steven Weinberg, and Wolfgang Paul. After him are Melvin Schwartz, Roy J. Glauber, Ralph Asher Alpher, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Michio Kaku, and Andrew Huxley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Robert H. Goddard ranks 40Before him are William Halsey Jr., Arthur Eddington, Princess Margaret of Connaught, René Coty, Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, and Charles Ponzi. After him are Karol Szymanowski, Jacques Maritain, Hugh Dowding, A. A. Milne, Moritz Schlick, and Nicolai Hartmann. Among people deceased in 1945, Robert H. Goddard ranks 54Before him are Karl Hanke, Yun Chi-ho, Robert Ritter von Greim, Edgar Cayce, Theodore Dreiser, and Franz Werfel. After him are Karl-Otto Koch, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Oskar Dirlewanger, Heinrich Wölfflin, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert H. Goddard ranks 817 out of NaNBefore him are Immanuel Wallerstein (1930), Quincy Jones (1933), William Sadler (1950), Dennis Ritchie (1941), Stephen Collins (1947), and Walt Whitman Rostow (1916). After him are Telly Savalas (1922), Clair Cameron Patterson (1922), Duke Ellington (1899), Robert Johnson (1911), Melvin Schwartz (1932), and Brandon Lee (1965).

Among Physicists In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert H. Goddard ranks 43Before him are Hugh Everett III (1930), Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Edward Mills Purcell (1912), James Cronin (1931), David Lee (1931), and Steven Weinberg (1933). After him are Melvin Schwartz (1932), Roy J. Glauber (1925), Ralph Asher Alpher (1921), Michio Kaku (1947), Frederick Reines (1918), and Robert Hofstadter (1915).

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