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Robert H. Goddard

1882 - 1945

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Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926. By 1915 his pioneering work had dramatically improved the efficiency of the solid-fueled rocket, signaling the era of the modern rocket and innovation. He and his team launched 34 rockets between 1926 and 1941, achieving altitudes as high as 2.6 km (1.6 mi) and speeds as fast as 885 km/h (550 mph). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert H. Goddard has received more than 1,660,450 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Robert H. Goddard is the 170th most popular physicist (down from 153rd in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from United States (down from 702nd in 2019) and the 28th 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 170 out of 717. Before him are Laura Bassi, Georges Charpak, Benjamin Thompson, James Rainwater, Syukuro Manabe, and Leon Cooper. After him are Igor Kurchatov, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Hannes Alfvén, Pyotr Kapitsa, Edward Mills Purcell, and Arthur Ashkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Robert H. Goddard ranks 40. Before him are Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, Princess Marie Bonaparte, Hans Geiger, Arthur Eddington, Bela Lugosi, and Nicolai Hartmann. After him are Boris Shaposhnikov, René Coty, Moritz Schlick, Karol Szymanowski, Otto Neurath, and Yanka Kupala. Among people deceased in 1945, Robert H. Goddard ranks 60. Before him are Edgar Cayce, Hans Geiger, Edith Frank, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Margot Frank, and René Lalique. After him are Fumimaro Konoe, Boris Shaposhnikov, Kurt Knispel, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Georg Elser, and Juana Bormann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert H. Goddard ranks 728 out of 18,182. Before him are Omar Bradley (1893), Robert McNamara (1916), Dolly Parton (1946), Leon Cooper (1930), Roy Scheider (1932), and Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867). After him are Robert Nozick (1938), Frances Farmer (1913), Patricia Highsmith (1921), Kamehameha I (1758), Vivian Maier (1926), and Gloria Swanson (1899).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert H. Goddard ranks 28. Before him are Murray Gell-Mann (1929), Steven Weinberg (1933), Donald A. Glaser (1926), Benjamin Thompson (1753), James Rainwater (1917), and Leon Cooper (1930). After him are Edward Mills Purcell (1912), Arthur Ashkin (1922), James Cronin (1931), Charles H. Townes (1915), Robert Hofstadter (1915), and Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915).

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