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Walter Hohmann

1880 - 1945

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Walter Hohmann (; German: [ˈhoːman]; 18 March 1880 – 11 March 1945) was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two different orbits, now called a Hohmann transfer orbit. He received his Ph.D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Hohmann has received more than 55,388 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Hohmann is the 199th most popular engineer (down from 178th in 2019), the 3,429th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,029th in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Walter Hohmann ranks 199 out of 389. Before him are Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Eugen Sänger, Alexander Lodygin, Franz Grashof, Émile Levassor, and Alphonse Pénaud. After him are Béla Barényi, Evgeny Paton, Vladimir Petlyakov, Bassel al-Assad, Mikhail Koshkin, and Alexey Sudayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Walter Hohmann ranks 115. Before him are B. C. Forbes, Hans Hofmann, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adrian Carton de Wiart, and Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani. After him are Samuel Jones, Jeannette Rankin, Walter Short, Eugen Slutsky, Richard Oswald, and Dmitry Karbyshev. Among people deceased in 1945, Walter Hohmann ranks 221. Before him are Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, Charles W. Gilmore, Julius Leber, Harry Hillman, Violette Szabo, and Nikolai Tcherepnin. After him are Kurt von der Chevallerie, Emil von Reznicek, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Aris Velouchiotis, Salomėja Nėris, and Hannie Schaft.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Hohmann ranks 3,429 out of 7,253. Before him are Christian August of Saxe-Zeitz (1666), Renate Stecher (1950), Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729), Prince Eduard of Saxe-Altenburg (1804), Andreas von Ettingshausen (1796), and Dominikus Zimmermann (1685). After him are Kurt von der Chevallerie (1891), Lewis A. Coser (1913), Albert O. Hirschman (1915), Prince William of Baden (1829), Joseph Gaertner (1732), and Thomas Doll (1966).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Walter Hohmann ranks 25. Before him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Anton Flettner (1885), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Hugo Eckener (1868), and Franz Grashof (1826). After him are Johann Georg Halske (1814), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Paul Mauser (1838), Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Oskar von Miller (1855), and Gerhard Fieseler (1896).

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