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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 51,888 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Walter Hohmann is the 180th most popular engineer (down from 159th in 2019), the 3,032nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,576th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Engineer.

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Among engineers, Walter Hohmann ranks 180 out of 323. Before him are Alfred Neubauer, Henryk Dembiński, Hugo Eckener, Dmitry Dmitrievich Maksutov, John Smeaton, and Pierre Charles L'Enfant. After him are Michel Chevalier, Gotthilf Hagen, Vladimir Petlyakov, Louis Dollo, Agustín de Betancourt, and Joseph Strauss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Walter Hohmann ranks 106. Before him are Zequinha de Abreu, Eugen Slutsky, Mirza Kuchik Khan, William Joseph Simmons, Broncho Billy Anderson, and Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. After him are Walter Short, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Christabel Pankhurst, Fritz Bleyl, Hans Hofmann, and Lytton Strachey. Among people deceased in 1945, Walter Hohmann ranks 197. Before him are Julius Leber, William Joseph Simmons, Antal Szerb, Alfred Delp, Emily Carr, and Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil. After him are Wincenty Witos, Rolf Carls, Jerome Kern, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, John Curtin, and Emil von Reznicek.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Hohmann ranks 3,032 out of 6,142. Before him are E. F. Schumacher (1911), Princess Marie Frederica of Hesse-Kassel (1804), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Rainald of Dassel (1114), Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1725), and Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703). After him are Heike Drechsler (1964), Werner Schroeter (1945), Johannes Dieckmann (1893), Bernhard Romberg (1767), Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães (1858), and Rolf Hochhuth (1931).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Walter Hohmann ranks 24. Before him are Franz Reuleaux (1829), Gustave Whitehead (1874), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Hellmuth Walter (1900), Anton Flettner (1885), and Hugo Eckener (1868). After him are Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Franz Grashof (1826), Paul Mauser (1838), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Johann Georg Halske (1814), and Oskar von Miller (1855).

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